Book Quote by Marilynne Robinson

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never…

— Lisa Lutz

You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just…

— Sissy Spacek

Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of…

— Joan Didion

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them…

— Miley Cyrus

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the…

— Sara Zarr

I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so…

— Seanan McGuire

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

— Anne Tyler

The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but…

— Mary Doria Russell

For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for…

— Sarah MacLean

If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding…

— Khaled Hosseini

That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying…

— Jonathan Dee

With a novel, you have the reader with you a lot longer, and you owe him a lot more. Obviously you have to have…

— Dave Barry