Anybody Quote by Hugh Dancy

I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of their personality.

— Diana Gabaldon

All the way through the book I altered details about every one of the characters.

— James Frey

The way I saw the characters these things just happened naturally. At the same time - and I know it's probably not apparent when…

— Donald Ray Pollock

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 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

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never…

— Lisa Lutz

“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect…

— C.K. Webb

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

— Michael Morpurgo

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

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going…

— Stephen King

“I feel that the characters in my book, if they were real, would be like, "Seriously, another plot twist?”

— Kaya Carvajal

I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people…

— Michael C. Hall