Authors Quote by Anthony Horowitz

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

— W. E. B. Griffin

“Fictional characters exert a great deal of influence over our choices in love by representing inaccessible ideals to which we try to make others…

— Pierre Bayard

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

— Sara Sheridan

“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is…

— Margaret Laurence

The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are…

— George R. R. Martin

When you're a writer, if you're very lucky, you create these characters that you fall in love with, and you feel like they're guiding…

— Janet Varney

“Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad at real…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we…

— C.S. Lewis