Books Quote by Georges Simenon

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

— Brian Boyd

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

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the…

— Ann Brashares

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

— Nicholas Sparks

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to…

— Orson Scott Card

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

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

— Ernest Hemingway

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

— Antonio Tabucchi

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber

The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are…

— George R. R. Martin

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes…

— Ray Bradbury