Books Quote by Jesse Armstrong

There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful…

— Peter Schjeldahl

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings…

— Edmund White

I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.

— Raymond Chandler

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

— Ben Dolnick

“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,”…

— Sōseki Natsume

Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.

— Tommy Lee Jones

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make…

— Jim Parrack

I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I'd rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have…

— Vincent Cassel

I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person.…

— Andrea Riseborough

If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I…

— Omari Hardwick