There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have…

You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you…

— Patrick Rothfuss

In sci-fi, the Black guys always die. So, it's extremely important to bring African-American characters to the genre and not have them killed.

— Jonathan Majors

It's true - women want the fantasy. So give them romance - but without the desperation, wondering, and waiting you see in the movies.

— Nadine Velazquez

There are good characters and bad characters.

— Matt Stone

I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.

— Michael K. Williams

I work very hard on finding good characters who can explain things to me, and I use them to help tell the story. I…

— Michael Pollan

I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested.

— Joel Kinnaman

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

— Thomas Lennon

Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.

— Bob Mayer

I'd like to play nothing but good characters.

— Joan Leslie

Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.

— Ludivine Sagnier

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good…

— Randy Quaid

I started reading fantasy and science fiction and writing fantasy and science fiction when I was - when I started junior high school.

— Leigh Bardugo

“When you mix Science Fiction with Fantasy you don't have a pure genre, the two are, to a professional separate genres. I noticed today…

— L. Ron Hubbard

As a kid, I pretty much got nothing but scorn, and occasionally active animus, for writing fantasy and squirreling it away in my closet…

— Sherwood Smith