Books Quote by Albert Camus

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

— John Gregory Dunne

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

“A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously. Albert…

— Albert Camus

No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination…

— W. Somerset Maugham

His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

— Ruth Ozeki

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

— W. E. B. Griffin

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

— Alan Dean Foster

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor…

— Anonymous

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

— Ernest Hemingway