Book Quote by John Green

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

— Matt Dillon

The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when…

— Jennifer Konner

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

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

— Ben Dolnick

The characters don't all have to be likable, and they don't all have to be hateable. As long as it's interesting and you connect…

— Aaron Ehasz

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

— Leonard Ravenhill

There's such an emphasis on having a character be likable. I don't think it would be helpful if I worried about that. I mean,…

— Adam Driver

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

— Lynne Tillman

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the…

— Ann Brashares

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

— Cornelia Funke

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

— Michael Morpurgo

It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you…

— Alissa Nutting