Book Quote by Julien Green

A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.

— Mo Yan

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

— Georges Simenon

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of…

— Anita Desai

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in…

— Robert Boswell

You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel where you…

— Jonathan Dee

“I think there should be more black characters, and more of all kinds of characters, in fiction. Almost all of the main characters in…

— Neil Gaiman

The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to anyone, and…

— Emma Healey

But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's…

— John Green

“The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I keep telling you, you don't pay enough attention to the minor characters. A novel should be like a street full of strangers, where…

— Irène Némirovsky

People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Many of us would not make terribly interesting characters in a novel.”

— Claire Wingfield