American history Quote by Lynne Tillman

I’ve always thought a novelist only has one character and that is himself or herself.

— John Gregory Dunne

I've never been able to write narrative as a character, really. Jenny Lewis, I love her stuff, I love that she can weave these…

— Lauren Mayberry

It's always hard for a writer to make herself into a character; I had to figure out what my defining characteristics were, and that's…

— Jesmyn Ward

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being…

— Eudora Welty

When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I…

— Jonathan Ames

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.

— Sonia Rykiel

This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't…

— Arthur Golden

Many of the traits in my characters are exaggerations of things I see in myself. But in 'How Should a Person Be?' I wasn't…

— Sheila Heti

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people…

— Maeve Binchy

I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from her point…

— Shweta Tripathi

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

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey…

— Conor Oberst