Books Quote by George V. Higgins

You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a…

— Gene Wolfe

I focus on characters as individuals with attitudes and write each scene from a particular character's point of view. That way, even narrative passages…

— Elmore Leonard

The first rule is you have to create a reality that makes the reader want to come back and see what happens next. The…

— Chris Claremont

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

— Mo Yan

Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down,…

— Terry Pratchett

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.

— David Mamet

In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.

— Elizabeth Berg

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

— Ernest Hemingway

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

— Cornelia Funke

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

— Michael Chabon

Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

— Kurt Vonnegut