Book Quote by Gail Carson Levine

The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand…

— Jaume Cabre

Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in…

— Sean Bean

If you read something and you want to do it, nothing gets in your way, you figure out how to bring that character to…

— Fred Hechinger

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

— Cornelia Funke

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your…

— Edward James Olmos

Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.

— Robert Boswell

I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character,…

— George R. R. Martin

Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.

— Robin Hobb

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters…

— Mohsin Hamid

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

— Alan Dean Foster

I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being…

— Ayana Mathis