Books Quote by Maren Elwood

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them…

— Allan Massie

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside…

— Cornelia Funke

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

— S. E. Hinton

“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?”

— Jim Power

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

— Oscar Wilde

You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like…

— John Hartford

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

— Ruth Ozeki

“Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back.”

— Ben Abix

I think with every writer there are two people there.

— Hugh Leonard

One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real…

— Joanne Harris

A real writer [...] looks not in another writer but himself.

— Indro Montanelli