Character Quote by Allan Massie

The satisfaction of short fiction does not come close to the rich pleasure I get as a writer in the long deep immersion in…

— Vera Nazarian

I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present,…

— Eric Stoltz

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

— Franklin P. Adams

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a…

— Simon Callow

I've had people who see all my characters as Native, even if they aren't. It's kind of like assuming all a writer's characters are…

— Eden Robinson

That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you telling them.

— Mike Bartlett

“You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never…

— Christy Hall

One of the great things about the longer you do a character, the more the writers start to understand your kind of character ticks…

— Chris Demetral

“The writer's characters must stand before us with a wonderful clarity, such continuous clarity that nothing they do strikes us as improbable behavior for…

— John Gardner

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.

— Richard LaGravenese

You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.

— Truman Capote

Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public library by…

— Maxine Cheshire