Books Quote by Becky Albertalli

I think I'm up for not trying to play a literary heroine. I think I'd rather just do someone that has just been created…

— Lily James

All that matters to me as a reader are characters. I want characters to be real, authentic, and rounded. I will be digging into…

— Matt de la Pena

I would never want to write a character who was not thoroughly herself or himself. She's a very specific creature in my mind, and…

— Lynne Tillman

The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and…

— Tim O'Brien

I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from an outline.…

— Jesmyn Ward

I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can weave these…

— Lauren Mayberry

I am looking for a character that connects to me on some level. It has to be about something, it has to have depth…

— Richard Hatch

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are…

— Lauren Myracle

I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I…

— Lisa Unger

Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.

— Maureen Corrigan

“I read and write for character. If I like and can relate to the characters in a story I can enjoy any kind of…

— Charles de Lint