Book Quote by Carl Hiaasen

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think…

— Carl Hiaasen

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

— Judy Blume

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another…

— John Dos Passos

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

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

— Chris Cleave

It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took…

— Molly Antopol

In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time.

— Ian Rankin

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

I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two…

— Judy Blume

I enjoy the writing process and producing; I enjoy seeing an idea come to fruition. I'm driven by very complex characters. You look at…

— Sasha Roiz

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have…

— Meg Cabot

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up…

— Norton Juster