Book Quote by James Anthony Froude

So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he…

— Willa Cather

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They…

— Robert E. Howard

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are,…

— Thomas Middleditch

“...no mind ever grew fat on a diet of novels. The pleasure which they occasionally offer is far too heavily paid for: they undermine…

— Elias Canetti

“It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in…

— Criss Jami

“I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man’s reason, his emotions, his nerves, his whole animal…

— Leonid Andreyev

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being…

— Eudora Welty

“Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we…

— C.S. Lewis

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

— Elizabeth Moon

“Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions…

— James Allen

In any character you are given to play, be it evil/good/whatever character, you begin with self. You examine yourself and ruthlessly see similarities between…

— John Kani