Character Quote by Brian Boyd

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

“Life might be stranger than fiction, but fiction allows many writers to more accurately portray life to their readers.”

— Jaime Buckley

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

— William Throsby Bridges

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've…

— Neil Jordan

the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

— Flannery O'Connor

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that…

— Francine Rivers

“A great number of elements in the characters’ lives, both psychic and factual, are not communicated to us. […] These characters, I believe, enjoy…

— Pierre Bayard

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the…

— Adam Johnson

We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s…

— Steven Saylor

“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people…

— Anne Lamott

“We all fictionalize ourselves in the process of creating a story out of the raw materials of our life. For some it is a…

— Neil McCormick