Character Quote by Abhishek Banerjee

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters…

— Rick Moody

There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.

— Ben Dolnick

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

— Elbert Hubbard

Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all the time.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

— Nicholas Sparks

Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.

— Anil Sinha

I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do…

— Natalie Portman

Character is just what we inwardly are and outwardly do.

— Sri Chinmoy

You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as…

— Mark Russell

Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a…

— Isabel Allende

Character is your actuality that defines your life.

— Tasneem Hameed

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.

— Genndy Tartakovsky