Character Quote by Markus Zusak

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me,…

— R. A. Salvatore

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

— Jodi Picoult

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

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.

— Sacheen Littlefeather

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

— Chris Brogan

It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go…

— Matthew Ashford

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous,…

— John Banville

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not…

— Akira Kurosawa

What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying…

— Tobias Wolff

Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort…

— Chelsea Cain

Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you,…

— Barbara Abercrombie