Character Quote by Anthony McCarten

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are,…

— Thomas Middleditch

Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered…

— Kurt Vonnegut

You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.

— Emily Mortimer

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those…

— Aaron Sorkin

I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

— Zoey Deutch

You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you…

— Patrick Rothfuss

You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.

— Jamie Hewlett

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which…

— Joseph Addison

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

— Andy Rooney

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being…

— Eudora Welty