Books Quote by Lev A.C. Rosen

“The conflict between how we wish to be perceived and what we really feel is at the root of all character.”

— John Yorke

“Sometimes we're so wrapped up in our own story that we don't see how we're supporting characters in someone else's.”

— Nathan Hill, The Nix

“In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don’t know how to…

— Soseki Natsume

“It is possible for YA heroines to go an entire book without discussing their love lives.”

— Celine Kiernan

“I learned that you could so fully inhabit a character that you could fool others, move others. With talent and commitment, you could seduce…

— Bryan Cranston

“...the characters themselves. The struggles they have to go through, and when you really love them, how much they affect you. When the characters…

— Francesca Zappia

“There’s no explaining love. It stands by itself; it makes mistakes and struggles on its own.”

— Margaret Mazzantini

“What truly matters isn’t your feelings or even those of your characters—it’s the emotional experience of your audience.”

— Will Raywood

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

— Orson Scott Card

“We’re only ever playing fifty percent of a character. The rest is us, and we’re afraid to show people who we really are. We’re…

— M.L. Rio

“Even the weak and the foolish feel love. They just don't know how to make that matter to someone other than themselves.”

— Teri Hall

“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by…

— Milan Kundera