Asks Quote by Judy Blume

That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying…

— Jonathan Dee

Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just…

— Anna Todd

Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of…

— Joan Didion

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them…

— Miley Cyrus

I don't like to read books where I feel as though I've stepped into the middle of things and don't know what's going on.…

— Jude Deveraux

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

— Paul Auster

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

— Anne Tyler

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

— Judy Blume

We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you are thinking…

— Meg Wolitzer

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

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last…

— Paul Auster

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not…

— Akira Kurosawa