Character Quote by Jose Saramago

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters…

— Alice Hoffman

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

— John Gregory Dunne

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

— Elizabeth Kostova

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

— Francine Rivers

The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are…

— George R. R. Martin

The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.

— Joan Didion

Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you dream of…

— Joshua Jackson

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

— Monica Ali

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character.

— Antonio Tabucchi

Honestly, I never dreamed of being a writer; it felt too unrealistic to even dream about.

— Anna Todd