Books Quote by Anonymous

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

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

— Muriel Spark

“If reason be judge, no writer has produced such inconsistent characters as nature herself has. It must call for no small sagacity in a…

— Herman Melville

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

— Stephen King

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.

— Julian Barnes

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

— Albert Camus

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

— John Gregory Dunne

Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.

— Cody Rhodes

A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations.

— Umberto Eco

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

— Winston Churchill

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

— Hannah Kent