Books Quote by Antonio Tabucchi

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

— Georges Simenon

We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you are thinking…

— Meg Wolitzer

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources…

— Asa Butterfield

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and…

— Sara Paretsky

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

— Ernest Hemingway

Never settle for being a character in someone else's story when you are meant to be the author of your own.

— Pacifiersucker

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

— Harper Lee

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

— Diana Gabaldon

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

— Michael Morpurgo

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

— W. E. B. Griffin