Book Quote by Hale Appleman

I started reading and fell in love with the worlds and characters Lev Grossman created. I'm taken with his exploration of an idealized childhood…

— Hale Appleman

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

— Nicholas Sparks

I think even the characters that are fundamentally evil and wrong, I want people to really love them. I think that's important to writing…

— Mark Russell

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

That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying…

— Jonathan Dee

One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than in theory.…

— Rick Yancey

As far as characters in fiction that I really admire - it's pretty strong to say you would wish that you had created another…

— Michael Connelly

Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their own lives.…

— Stephen King

I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the…

— Sally Hawkins

If people can come out of 'Bin Roye' feeling even just a little bit of what this character felt, and touched your heart, that's…

— Mahira Khan

I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don't necessarily care about anyone else.

— Kristen Stewart

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