Believe Quote by Jason Reynolds

“Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are…

— Lauren Myracle

You always want to put your character through different experiences and see how it shapes their worldview.

— Mary Wiseman

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

— Brian Boyd

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

— Robert Holdstock

We live in stories. What we are is stories. We do things because of what is called character, and our character is formed by…

— William Kittredge

In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real…

— Flannery O'Connor

Each character is a completely whole person with their problems and many sides to their personality. It's so rich with details as well, like…

— Alexis Bledel

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that…

— Francine Rivers

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

All stories are just stories of a character changing.

— Tom King