Character Quote by Isabel Allende

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

— Karin Slaughter

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

— Paul Schrader

It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.

— Haley Joel Osment

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

Often times, if a character is pretty straightforward, he or she is not as interesting to portray.

— Jonathan Jackson

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character,…

— Thomas Bernhard

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

— Lillian Hellman

It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.

— Keira Knightley

Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all the time.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I…

— Jez Butterworth

You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you don't have…

— Michael Hirst

Nice characters are boring!

— Marjorie M. Liu