Bills Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“They say a writer is not a single person, it is a bunch of characters. What I learned from life is that everyone is…

— Himanshu Chhabra

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

— Mike White

If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my personal life,…

— Condoleezza Rice

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people…

— Maeve Binchy

The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets…

— D.T. Suzuki

“A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.”

— Terry A O'Neal

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

— James Howe

With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I…

— Ray McKinnon

Our character is revealed by how we treat people who cannot help us or hurt us.

— Michael Josephson

I understand pain very well, so I look for that in a role. If the characters are well-written, don't tell nobody, but I'll do…

— Michael K. Williams

I love taking a character and raining holy hell down on them and seeing how they respond, how they react. It's one of the…

— Blake Crouch

“From the beginning I've searched out those writers unafraid to stir up the emotions, who entrust me with their darkest passions, their most indestructible…

— Pat Conroy