Attitude Quote by Elmore Leonard

You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a…

— Gene Wolfe

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.

— Paula Patton

I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes…

— Liana Liberato

I find myself speaking through the other characters, putting ideas in their voices and heads. Writing almost becomes a splitting of myself into multiple…

— Danzy Senna

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

Most of my writing is an effort, one way or another, to figure something out about myself, and often when I read dialogue between…

— Ron Currie Jr

When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes…

— George R. R. Martin

I'm asking the reader to suspend reality with me and entertain the idea that the person writing is not me. In order to do…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes…

— Liana Liberato

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

“When you write a story, don't just write it - live it; When putting words into the mouth of a protagonist (or any character)…

— Arti Honrao

In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.

— Elizabeth Berg