Being Quote by Jay Asher

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

— Michael Connelly

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

— Michael Morpurgo

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character,…

— George R. R. Martin

If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the…

— Margaret Atwood

The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand…

— Jaume Cabre

For me, with any character, there are different ways that you approach understanding him, and in this film in particular, because I had the…

— Asa Butterfield

The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.

— John Irving

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

— Alan Dean Foster

Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in…

— Sean Bean