Character Quote by Mark Waid

If you don't have a good character you have nothing. Character portrays the moral values of a person.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

— Jeremy London

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings…

— Edmund White

Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and their values.

— Mark Pellegrino

“I write characters that are ultimately flawed. Individual morality motivates character action. They all have a different view of right and wrong. Regardless of…

— Peter P. Sellers

Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what you bring.…

— Chris Abani

Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I'd rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have…

— Vincent Cassel

Character is ethics in action.

— Michael Josephson

The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a…

— Whitley Strieber

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to…

— Aden Young

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that…

— Fran Lebowitz

Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate…

— Karen Traviss