Books Quote by Diana Gabaldon

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

— Ruth Ozeki

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that…

— Hugh Dancy

All that matters to me as a reader are characters. I want characters to be real, authentic, and rounded. I will be digging into…

— Matt de la Pena

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

— W. E. B. Griffin

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we…

— C.S. Lewis

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

— Nicholas Sparks

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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 more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

— Vladimir Nabokov

All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're just underwritten.…

— Ophelia Lovibond

Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's…

— Claire Messud