Almost Quote by Gregory Maguire

I'm not a character in any of my books.

— Truman Capote

I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including my two…

— Lois Lowry

We're at a point nowhere it has to change. We have characters that are not alive that are alive in the book. We have…

— Scott M. Gimple

When any character gets killed, there's always a sadness about that, because they're part of the family in a way.

— Jeremy Podeswa

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only…

— Russell Hoban

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've…

— Neil Jordan

I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page…

— Viggo Mortensen

To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a story that…

— Robin Hobb

If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter.

— Kelly Nelson

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

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

— Nicholas Sparks

A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents.

— L. Tom Perry