Book Quote by Max Shulman

As a writer I am proud that if you took my last four books, and they didn't have my name on them, I don't…

— Jay Neugeboren

Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Main characters never die in books. If they did, the story would be ruined, or over.” “Everybody is a main character to someone. There…

— Amy Harmon

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

— Ann Patchett

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

— W. E. B. Griffin

I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.

— Michael Connelly

“I keep telling you, you don't pay enough attention to the minor characters. A novel should be like a street full of strangers, where…

— Irène Némirovsky

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

— Nicholas Sparks

Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort…

— Douglas Coupland

I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are…

— Kate Atkinson

A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and…

— Blake Bailey