Character-description Quote by Ken Scott

“The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.”

— Mike Bove

“Good fiction is life with all the boring bits taken out, not with all the hardship taken out.”

— Caro Clarke

“Good fiction makes the truth believable.”

— Tarrant Smith

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living…

— Vincent Canby

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

“A good character in a novel brings out emotions from your past and plants them in front of you - as terrifying as that…

— Conrad Brasso

“Characters, for good or evil, are part of an author's family. Once we have let them out of our imaginations, they stay with us…

— Andrew Ferrell

“Doesn't every previous era feel like fiction once it's gone?”

— Karen Thompson Walker

“All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I knew and loved who didn't…

— Sanela Ramic Jurich

“Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we…

— C.S. Lewis

“...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that…

— Ted Conover

“But I’m not sure it actually matters what we read. Our lives continue along the straight lines that have been set out for us.…

— Anthony Horowitz