Character Quote by Kevin Spacey

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to…

— Alan Lightman

Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.

— Robert J. Sawyer

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

— Ruth Ozeki

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

— Ernest Hemingway

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,”…

— Sōseki Natsume

It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you…

— Alissa Nutting

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know…

— Cassandra Clare

Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a…

— Jennifer Weiner

Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.

— Ashley Madekwe

Where does a character come from? Because a character, at the end of the day, a character will be the combination of the writing…

— Brian Henson