Character Quote by Herman Melville

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

— Chris Cleave

When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that…

— Walter Kirn

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are…

— Lauren Myracle

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

— Tom Wolfe

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but…

— John Green

I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

— Elizabeth George

I live in the Village, and the way it's been, people sort of drop in on me and my husband. My husband is Robert…

— Lorraine Hansberry

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

— Jerry Spinelli

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

— Tea Obreht

A good novelist loves all of his characters, he lives in them, even in those who commit or must commit terrible acts.

— Liao Yiwu