Certain Quote by Neil Jordan

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

— Brian Boyd

A character does seem to have a life of its own, but I have what I'd describe as a very fluid relationship with them…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances…

— Isabel Allende

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that…

— Francine Rivers

Don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.

— Toni Collette

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

— Julie Walters

Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin,…

— Eudora Welty

People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed – they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood. They are…

— Lois Duncan

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'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn't.

— Adam Silvera

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars.

— James Hillman