Character Quote by Margaret Mahy

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the…

— James Frey

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

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not…

— Jennifer Beals

Characters do change over time; there are surprises, role reversals, and things like that.

— Paul Dini

I think if characters change too much, it's unrealistic; their whole fabric of who they are as a person doesn't just disappear.

— Theodore Melfi

I don't think writers change the past any more than other people do, except in so far as we may mine our lives and…

— Marge Piercy

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

— Joyce Carol Oates

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in…

— Anthony Burgess

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

— Stephen King

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over…

— Angela Kinsey

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler

All stories are just stories of a character changing.

— Tom King