Character Quote by Liam Cunningham

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in…

— Anonymous

I think you can't go into any story-breaking process thinking, 'What if they come off as unlikeable?' You just gotta break the story because…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

— Gail Carson Levine

As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did…

— Charles de Lint

Don't put anything into a story that does not reveal character or advance the action.

— Kurt Vonnegut

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.

— Hunter S. Thompson

You were never part of the whole story, you were only a chapter. I would like to rip out the pages but without them,…

— Nishan Panwar

I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.

— Garry Trudeau

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

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have…

— Meg Cabot