Books Quote by Graham Greene

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may…

— Laurie Graham

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

— Joyce Carol Oates

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

— Joe Klein

I always have to start with a character that I can really hook into, and then build from there. I have writer friends who…

— Katie Wech

The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to anyone, and…

— Emma Healey

What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're probably not going to pay as much attention to…

— Gina Rodriguez

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

“When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be…

— Carl Henegan

Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

— Judy Blume

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another…

— John Dos Passos

I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and…

— Sara Paretsky