Books Quote by Curtis Sittenfeld

That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying…

— Jonathan Dee

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

— Nicholas Sparks

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the…

— Ann Brashares

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other…

— Paul Kane

No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.

— Sara Gilbert

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to be writers or scientists.…

— Andrea Barrett

I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.

— Steve Buscemi

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or…

— Christopher Koch

I'm lucky that the characters that I get tend to be interesting and a little schizophrenic.

— David Hewlett

I like to play these unconventional characters, yes. They're close to the way I feel as a human being.

— Ken Stott