Books Quote by Len Wein

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

— Holliday Grainger

I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes…

— Marlon James

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

— Dean Koontz

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

— Nicholas Sparks

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand…

— Jaume Cabre

“...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to…

— Harold Bloom

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some…

— Jill McCorkle

A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of…

— Carolyn See

Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.

— William G. Tapply

“Rather, in discussions of books we should cast characters not in terms of stable character traits, but in terms of internal states, feelings, intentions,…

— Peter H. Johnston

“Characters, as most writers understand, are truly developed through their relationships with others.”

— Orson Scott Card