Book Quote by Michael Connelly

I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I…

— Brad Thor

My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to…

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.

— Diana Gabaldon

Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that makes the…

— Alexander Chee

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

— Alan Lightman

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in…

— Chinua Achebe

If you're writing about a character, if he's a powerful character, unless you give him vulnerability I don't think he'll be as interesting to…

— Stan Lee

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that…

— Hugh Dancy

Whenever we've approached a story, it's always started with the character, and the idea of some character struggling with some part of himself. That's…

— Anna Boden

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

The way I saw the characters these things just happened naturally. At the same time - and I know it's probably not apparent when…

— Donald Ray Pollock

As with anything, you need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep the character interesting.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar