Book Quote by Douglas Coupland

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

There is no better indicators of character than the books you have.

— John Dunning

Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in…

— Sean Bean

If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then the characters…

— Terry Pratchett

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books a supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of…

— John Green

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

Every book is different with it's own personality just like children.

— Cassandra Clare

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

— Cornelia Funke

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

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

— Robert Holdstock

“Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they…

— Janna Malamud Smith

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