Level Quote by Liza Weil

As a writer, you understand how hard it is to build up backstory for characters, so you can have impactful moments. You have to…

— Cory Barlog

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

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to…

— Stephen Coonts

Any writer would rather dig into character than dig into fancy plots.

— Michael Connelly

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another…

— John Dos Passos

If the writers all come from the same backgrounds, you are going to get the same sorts of characters. Get a broader variety of…

— Sophie Okonedo

The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long way here,…

— Michael Hirst

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

When we approach characters, we don't have their full story in mind right off the bat. Through the writing process we raise questions about…

— Anna Boden

I'm terribly particular about what I read: lush writing, secondary world or seriously far-out science fiction, strong worldbuilding, dynamic characters. I need to have…

— Kameron Hurley

“Ron Carlson says, 'The most undervalued craft device that fiction writers need is empathy. You need to be able to actually imagine what your…

— Barbara DeMarco-Barrett