About Quote by Jane Gardam

To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a story that…

— Robin Hobb

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own…

— Cassandra Clare

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only…

— Russell Hoban

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

— S. E. Hinton

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

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep…

— Charles Stross

All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.

— Orson Scott Card

I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of the fiction…

— Thomas Mallon

As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity to me.

— Courtney A. Kemp

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

— John Grisham

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

— Karen Russell