Believe Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

A character has to believe in himself, so I have to find a way to believe in them. Or at least sympathize to a…

— Michael McKean

“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?”

— Jim Power

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a…

— Thomas Perry

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

A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

— Jack Kirby

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is a truthful…

— Lena Dunham

Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing.

— Joshuah Bearman

The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand…

— Jaume Cabre

You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.

— Todd Lieberman

Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I'd rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have…

— Vincent Cassel

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

— Ruth Ozeki