Character Quote by Marilynne Robinson

No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“I'd said to them that when we read fiction, we pour our own paricular store of emotions - say, the sense of loss we…

— Chandler Burr

The characters in a novel are made up, figments of the writer's imagination. I'm sure this won't come as a surprise to anyone, and…

— Emma Healey

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and…

— Sara Paretsky

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

Characters are an extension of your imagination.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me, I talk…

— Judy Blume

Inventing characters is extraordinary: proper authors say so often that characters 'just appear' and that does happen. These people keep leaping out and saying,…

— Sheila Hancock

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh