Artifacts Quote by Jonathan Lethem

It's your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I'm not interested in the characters, I can't…

— Nic Pizzolatto

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

— Kathy Reichs

I like characters in life, generally; I don't like to see a collection modelled on a homogeneous look. That terrifies me.

— Giles Deacon

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

— Meg Cabot

I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.

— Martin Freeman

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel,…

— Sidney Sheldon

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do.

— Cate Blanchett

I used to say I wasn't interested in writing about characters.

— Emma Healey

I seem to have very few casual readers, only passionate and appreciative ones.

— Mitch Albom

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was…

— Christian Bale

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

— Nicholas Sparks

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

— Alexander McCall Smith