Able Quote by Amber Heard

With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have to have…

— Dave Barry

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to…

— Stewart O'Nan

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

— David Levithan

You don't need to like any of the characters, as long as you can understand why and where they're from. Why do you need…

— Channing Tatum

“I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.”

— Nick Helm

I just love playing characters that are a long way away from me.

— Dorothy Atkinson

Having done a lot of theater, I'm used to sustaining characters over long periods of time.

— Andy Serkis

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote…

— Ruskin Bond

What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it's the same for…

— Florence Pugh

What impresses me the most about DC characters is how long a lot of them have been around.

— Cliff Chiang

There's definitely a feeling with a short story that it's pure story telling. You're not really worried about theme. You're not going to stay…

— Neil Gaiman

I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them…

— Isabel Allende

“When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations.”

— A. Saleh

“In the beginning the stories were long and colored, but as he grew old and his eyes clouded, the stories were told in only…

— Pete Dexter

I just I love telling stories and as long as I can make my living doing that in all the different mediums that I…

— John Buffalo Mailer