About Quote by Emma Healey

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

— Meg Cabot

I'm never writing as a character.

— Lucy Dacus

I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.

— Donald Ray Pollock

I write to be the characters that I am not.

— Joss Whedon

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

— Ethan Canin

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 not a character in any of my books.

— Truman Capote

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

— Cate Blanchett

I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.

— Marti Noxon

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

— Dacia Maraini

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

— Miranda July