Characters Quote by Karin Slaughter

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in…

— Chinua Achebe

Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.

— Brittany Snow

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

— Alan Lightman

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

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

— Keith Miller

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

Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

— Karin Slaughter

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.

— James Dashner

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

— Antonio Tabucchi

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may…

— Laurie Graham

You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in…

— Walter Kirn