Always Quote by Lori Foster

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think…

— Carl Hiaasen

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I see publishers bemoaning their fate and saying that this is the end of publishing. No! Publishers will recreate themselves. Some of that comes…

— Tim O'Reilly

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

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

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story,…

— Dean Koontz

A lot of writers will take a character at the beginning of a story. And that character will stay the same all the way…

— Adrian Lester

I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

— Emma Donoghue

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

Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair!…

— Jackie Collins

I think with every writer there are two people there.

— Hugh Leonard