Business Quote by Jason Lutes

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist…

— Iris Murdoch

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.

— Paula Patton

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely…

— Keira Knightley

Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all the time.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.

— Lynne Tillman

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

— Paul Schrader

“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

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a…

— Nell Freudenberger

I think the most appealing characters for the audience are the ones that you never know whether to root for them or whether to…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

There's something to be said for a likable character, but fiction has a way of upending our ordinary standards.

— Ben Dolnick

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

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

— Nicholas Sparks