Against Quote by Harry Lloyd

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings…

— Edmund White

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

— Cornelia Funke

When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a…

— Ed Helms

What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

— Pat Barker

You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got…

— Ricky Gervais

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own…

— Stephen Mangan

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

Once you actually book the role, you see that people have faith in your ability to portray the character.

— Ray Fisher

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the…

— Ruth Ozeki

One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book. It's why…

— Michael Ondaatje

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

— Gail Carson Levine

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

— Leonard Ravenhill