About Quote by J. Courtney Sullivan

I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and…

— Sara Paretsky

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may…

— Laurie Graham

“Ron Carlson says, 'The most undervalued craft device that fiction writers need is empathy. You need to be able to actually imagine what your…

— Barbara DeMarco-Barrett

All that matters to me as a reader are characters. I want characters to be real, authentic, and rounded. I will be digging into…

— Matt de la Pena

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,”…

— Sōseki Natsume

Great control and great discipline are necessary when you reach your own editing stage of the book, but in the early stages you have…

— Jeanette Winterson

Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from writing about…

— Elif Batuman

In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has…

— Candace Camp