Books Quote by David Antin

Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

There's a wonderful adage in acting that you're stuck with the character, but the character is also stuck with you.

— Jeffrey Tambor

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read…

— Nikki Reed

Sometimes when a character in a novel is difficult for me to enter, I sue something in myself or in my own life as…

— Marge Piercy

Character is who you are under pressure, not who you are when everything's fine.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Never settle for being a character in someone else's story when you are meant to be the author of your own.

— Pacifiersucker

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.

— Andrew Shaffer

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

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 main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind.

— Jay Asher

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

— Alan Lightman