Alive Quote by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all the time.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

— James Earl Jones

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and to just…

— Quentin Tarantino

I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.

— Marti Noxon

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect…

— Emily Giffin

I really don't like to go for the stereotypes. I try to give you characters that you don't know until you get to know…

— Fede Alvarez

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them.

— Quentin Tarantino

You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.

— Edgar Ramirez

“Ron Carlson says, 'The most undervalued craft device that fiction writers need is empathy. You need to be able to actually imagine what your…

— Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their own lives.…

— Stephen King

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

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable