Character Quote by Allan Massie

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to…

— Margaret Mahy

All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can…

— Stephenie Meyer

When I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters.…

— Stephenie Meyer

I've never written a fiction before about real people. . . . I read everything that I could find by people who met them…

— Michael Frayn

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

— Franklin P. Adams

A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I try to…

— Dennis Cooper

“Audiences often ask if characters are based on real people. Indeed the impulse of the amateur is to write about who one knows. The…

— Anonymous

It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor.…

— Michael Schur

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

— S. E. Hinton

“Literature is the real life of imaginary people.”

— Stefanos Livos

“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?”

— Jim Power

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

— Cornelia Funke