Books Quote by Edward Albee

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

— Robert Holdstock

“You should see my personality on every page of my book, because I am the author. The book reflects the personality of the author.…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.

— Terry Pratchett

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

— Nicholas Sparks

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

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

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

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

— Alan Dean Foster

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

“...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to…

— Harold Bloom

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

— Italo Calvino

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their…

— Mel Brooks