Character Quote by Mary McCarthy

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters…

— Mohsin Hamid

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 suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes…

— Alan Moore

I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.

— Irvine Welsh

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the…

— Charlie Kaufman

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

— Nicholas Sparks

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

— C. S. Lewis

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist…

— Iris Murdoch

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

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

— Georges Simenon

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

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks