Book Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from page to…

— Suzanne Collins

I retain characters more often than plot, but what seems to happen is that I latch on to specific moments, turns of phrase, and…

— Sarah Weinman

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 the way through the book I altered details about every one of the characters.

— James Frey

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again,…

— Joel Coen

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

— Michael Chabon

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

The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to anyone, and…

— Emma Healey

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get…

— Jhonen Vasquez

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

— Michael Morpurgo

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

— Anita Desai

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a…

— Dick Wolf