Alone Quote by Leila Slimani

Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared…

— Doug Hutchison

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious…

— Todd Solondz

I have a strong personality - I know who I'm outside my work, and I'm nothing like the characters I portray.

— Bhumi Pednekar

“My problem as a writer is that—whenever I meet someone for the first time—I immediately invent for them a personality and background that are…

— James Rozoff

I get to play characters that kind of shock people and I enjoy doing that. I like characters that have meaning and get people…

— Alexa Vega

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my…

— Siegfried Lenz

I have that sort of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David/George Costanza thing where people are like, "How did you feel writing such an unlikable…

— Steve Toltz

“I know now that a writer cannot afford to give in to feelings of rage, disgust, or contempt. Did you answer someone in a…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

— Andrew O'Hagan