Character Quote by Charlie Cox

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and…

— John Rhys-Davies

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

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

Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their own lives.…

— Stephen King

I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

— Brad Anderson

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

— W. E. B. Griffin

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

— Ryan Reynolds

“what makes and ordinary person heroic is when they give up the thing they want most”

— Jane Heller

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

— Jodi Picoult

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

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

— Brian Boyd