Funny Quote by Mike Bartlett

I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the story and…

— Emily Giffin

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

It's my opinion that if you're trying to tell a realistic story that centers around realistic characters, you can't help but touch on important…

— Patrick Rothfuss

What intrigues me is that people kind of naturally want to label or pigeonhole the characters. They want to make it easy for themselves…

— Alexander Skarsgard

You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that…

— Kelly Link

You're living with these characters for years and years, you need to have a lock on who they are as people, what they like,…

— Aldis Hodge

Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the…

— Val Kilmer

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

— Paul Schrader

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are…

— Little Simz

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I…

— E. L. Konigsburg

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious…

— Todd Solondz