Books Quote by Ernest Hemingway

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know…

— Cassandra Clare

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Audiences often ask if characters are based on real people. Indeed the impulse of the amateur is to write about who one knows. The…

— Anonymous

I think a caricature is different than a character.

— Natasha Rothwell

Character is just another term for "good person." A person of character lives a worthy life guided by moral principles. A person of character…

— Michael Josephson

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

— Ruth Ozeki

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

— Georges Simenon

I think writers should create characters who are human and have a character arc of their own.

— Abhishek Banerjee

Character is something each one of us must build for himself, out of the laws of God and nature, the examples of others, and…

— Arthur Trudeau

Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met…

— Grant Morrison