Character Quote by Michael Emerson

I like a role where some of the character's motivations are confusing or at least interesting.

— Florence Pugh

What attracts me specifically to roles is the heart of the character.

— Tishuan Scott

The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has…

— Candace Camp

The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand…

— Jaume Cabre

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

— Paul Schrader

My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize…

— Adam Haslett

It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.

— Keira Knightley

I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado…

— Emily Blunt

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

— Kurt Vonnegut

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

— Christopher Reeve

... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

— Flannery O'Connor

It's important to me that I need to know what my character is about.

— Sameera Reddy