Banter Quote by David Benioff

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some…

— Alan Lightman

As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity to me.

— Courtney A. Kemp

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

— Alison Tyler

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

When you're a writer, there is a selflessness that has to happen; you have to have equity with how you treat each of the…

— Natasha Rothwell

When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.

— Marcia Clark

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

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

— W. E. B. Griffin

Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that makes the…

— Alexander Chee

Writer's block is for people who have the luxury of time.

— Jodi Picoult

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they…

— Sarah Weinman