Point of view Quote by James Wood

“My style might seem awkward, but I'm only trying to write down the things in the scene that I think the reader should know.”

— Hemingway

“Very often the characters people respond best to have little parts of reality they can relate to.”

— Sara Sheridan

Most of my writing is an effort, one way or another, to figure something out about myself, and often when I read dialogue between…

— Ron Currie Jr

“...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...”

— John Geddes

“Rather, in discussions of books we should cast characters not in terms of stable character traits, but in terms of internal states, feelings, intentions,…

— Peter H. Johnston

“Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content.”

— Francine Prose

I focus on characters as individuals with attitudes and write each scene from a particular character's point of view. That way, even narrative passages…

— Elmore Leonard

When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes…

— George R. R. Martin

You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene…

— Chris Cooper

“Style is a reflection of your attitude and your C.”

— Zubair Jutt

“i believe that true character gets revealed in actions, not in what someone says about him or herself.”

— Morgan Parker

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand…

— John Searle