Character Quote by Garrison Keillor

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.

— Richard Price

Character is a journey, not a destination.

— William J. Clinton

“I read once that all great writers have issues with their hometowns; guess I'm no exception. You can't let your origins bring you down,…

— Chris Colfer

We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.

— Denise Levertov

I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play…

— Viola Davis

With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move.…

— Gay Talese

“I’m a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. ... Let’s face it, traveling to some far off…

— Jim Starlin

“If we are to move people, we need to meet them where they are, but that means knowing where they are and knowing how…

— Helio Fred Garcia

“The writers we love often serve us through their comfort and example without their ever knowing it, and in this sense, they're as imaginary…

— Patricio Pron

Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

— Joanne Harris

It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be.

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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