Any Quote by Jonathan Dee

I think if you find that you're making a judgment on the character, than your audience will make a judgment on the character.

— Michelle Monaghan

I focus on characters as individuals with attitudes and write each scene from a particular character's point of view. That way, even narrative passages…

— Elmore Leonard

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom, so common with novel-writers, of degrading, by their contemptuous censure, the very…

— Jane Austen

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them. It's my job to treat them with respect and to just…

— Quentin Tarantino

You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's…

— Adam Haslett

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and…

— Adam Haslett

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the…

— Ruth Ozeki

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

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar