Books Quote by Dean Koontz

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

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

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

— David Levithan

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

— W. E. B. Griffin

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in…

— Norman Spinrad

There are many readers of the book, who don't know anything about the authors and the artists. There is more than one author. It…

— Gabriel Ba

“To write an excellent novel, make the outcome of the story matter to the reader through the evolving relationships between well-designed characters.”

— Martin Sandforth

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

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

Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to…

— Stephen Coonts

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