Birthday party Quote by Brandon Sanderson

For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters. You know, the characters that are constantly…

— Terry Pratchett

“Many people are partial to the notion that . . . all writers are somehow mere vessels for Truth and Beauty when they compose.…

— Paul Collins

Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they…

— Roald Dahl

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.

— Kent Haruf

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

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

— W. E. B. Griffin

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings…

— Edmund White

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books a supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of…

— John Green

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to…

— Jane Austen

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may…

— Laurie Graham