Character Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

— Michael Emerson

I'm a big believer in making sure that action is not confusing and the audience understands what the characters are up to and what…

— David Nutter

From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too…

— Deborah Cox

I think the idea is to try and understand everything about the characters and where the character is coming from, from their point of…

— Paul Dano

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of…

— Sara Zarr

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters…

— Mohsin Hamid

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again,…

— Joel Coen

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need…

— Edward Rutherfurd

I see this with experienced writers, too: They worry so much about the plot that they lose sight of the characters. They lose sight…

— Brian Michael Bendis

The characters write the plot. Their natures do.

— Norman Rush