Books Quote by Elizabeth Moon

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.

— Elizabeth Moon

The minute I ever start thinking about what a character would do is the minute I bring my ego into play. It's the minute…

— Heather Matarazzo

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

— Manuel Puig

“When you “lose yourself” inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behavior…

— Terry Marselle

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being…

— Eudora Welty

I was a very shy sort of person, and by acting different characters, I could immerse myself and make them do what, perhaps, I…

— David Jason

I focus on characters as individuals with attitudes and write each scene from a particular character's point of view. That way, even narrative passages…

— Elmore Leonard

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

— Joe Klein

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

— David Leavitt

“...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...”

— John Geddes

My character is just an extension of who I am. I'm not so much of an egomaniac. I'm not so much of a narcissist.

— Jade Cargill