Characters Quote by James Rozoff

“Never compromise your character's personality just to make a scene more exciting. Stories flow through your character, so never forget who they are.”

— Giuseppe Bianco

“It’s despicable of an author to kill his main personage solely for stirring imagination of indifferent or mean minds.”

— Lara Biyuts

“The characters who go to make up my stories and novels are not portraits. Characters I invent along with the story that carries them.…

— Eudora Welty

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

“Things that only a writer would understand—you’re writing a character—you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make…

— Lisa Marbly-Warir

Inventing characters is extraordinary: proper authors say so often that characters 'just appear' and that does happen. These people keep leaping out and saying,…

— Sheila Hancock

“A good character in a novel brings out emotions from your past and plants them in front of you - as terrifying as that…

— Conrad Brasso

“One of the shining exceptions in personalities is that writers do not need to be charismatic in their own persons; they are free to…

— Criss Jami

“It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most…

— Alain de Botton

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

— Jonathan Jackson

“If you can create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.”

— Somerset Maughn