Bad situation Quote by Leslye Headland

I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.

— Marti Noxon

I try not to push characters too close to myself because they get harder to write, but as a writer, you try to find…

— Tom King

Before I sat down and became a writer, before I began to do it habitually and for my living, there was a decades-long stretch…

— David Rakoff

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers…

— Ally Carter

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

— Jacqueline Woodson

Theres really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about…

— Sonakshi Sinha

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

— Jakucho Setouchi

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

— Augusten Burroughs

Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all the time.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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

In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing seem to me pretty insufferable. I try not to…

— Ken Liu

The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can…

— Peter Gould