Being true Quote by Emily Giffin

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I'm very opinionated and passionate when it comes to my characters.

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

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

The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can…

— Eric Bana

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

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

— Quentin Tarantino

I think even the characters that are fundamentally evil and wrong, I want people to really love them. I think that's important to writing…

— Mark Russell

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have…

— Meg Cabot

Your character is always right. No real person thinks they're being stupid or misguided or bigoted or evil or just plain wrong - so…

— Tana French

I always tend to like the characters that I play. I'm convinced that I am this person and I'm OK with whatever they do.

— Mark Wahlberg

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some…

— Jill McCorkle

I'm very opinionated, and when you're put in a position where you're getting the storylines that are not necessarily what's cranking at the back…

— Matthew Davis