Character Quote by Alaska

The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it.…

— Rachel Cusk

You see, I am trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across - not to just depict life…

— Ernest Hemingway

With my friends, it was always essentially true stories. That's how I always felt about doing King-Cat. This is something that really happened, whether…

— John Porcellino

It's a time in my life that I'm glad it's behind me. I've had time to reflect on the whole thing. I want to…

— Jayson Werth

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets…

— D.T. Suzuki

I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

— Nathan Parsons

If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... It's important to care about them. About who they are and…

— Neil Gaiman

It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

— Alexia Fast

However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a…

— Henry David Thoreau

If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding…

— Khaled Hosseini

To me, I love when, as a viewer, I can be on a journey with a character, and not just hearing about something that…

— Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction writer you…

— Ron Currie Jr