Actor Quote by Enrico Caruso

I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a…

— Marguerite Young

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

— S. E. Hinton

When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my…

— Hisham Matar

I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in…

— William James

In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl…

— John Green

I see myself as different characters in my music, but all pertaining to real life.

— Quincy Brown

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

“It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one person in…

— Sōseki Natsume

I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint,…

— Anonymous

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

— Carlton Cuse

When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain…

— George Orwell

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald