Books Quote by Melissa de la Cruz

When you're a writer, if you're very lucky, you create these characters that you fall in love with, and you feel like they're guiding…

— Janet Varney

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

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

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

— Kimberly Willis Holt

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

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

“My most important goal as a romance writer is to satisfy readers by creating memorable characters, offering insights on life, and, most of all,…

— Laura Abbot

The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

— Patrick deWitt

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

— Anthony Horowitz

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

It's just wonderful to be able to write about what my characters are thinking.

— Ruth Jones

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another…

— John Dos Passos