Book Quote by Greg Davies

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get…

— Jhonen Vasquez

I think with the best characters, you want to see them go on a journey, Partridge being the best example of that.

— Jamie Demetriou

No book has ever made me laugh as much as 'I, Partridge.'

— Jon Richardson

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

— Nicholas Sparks

Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's…

— Claire Messud

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

Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

— Mark Lawrence

“and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut…

— Jane Austen

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that…

— Hugh Dancy

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous,…

— John Banville

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything,…

— Simon Callow