Character Quote by Anonymous

When I think about what really matters, it's not looking at art that has made the most difference or has been most shaping of…

— W. S. Di Piero

Some of my characters are drawn from people I know whereas others are an amalgamation of people or one specific person. Sometimes a character…

— Zoya Akhtar

Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters.

— Mason Cooley

My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I…

— Jack Bowman

Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say.

— Compay Segundo

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them…

— Allan Massie

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the story and…

— Emily Giffin

The enemy of any artistic statement is to create something that no one cares about, in the sense they have no opinion either way.

— Carrie Brownstein

I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part…

— Kenneth Koch

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

— Lynn Nottage

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached…

— Angel Olsen