Believe Quote by Mohsin Hamid

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

— Georges Simenon

I think novels just really show us the deepest parts of people's hearts, and you cannot walk away anymore and say, "I don't know."

— Edwidge Danticat

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

— C. S. Lewis

Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have…

— Mary McCarthy

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people…

— Edwidge Danticat

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the…

— Ann Brashares

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it.…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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

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

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