Character Quote by Nell Freudenberger

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber

“Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we…

— C.S. Lewis

“A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning desire to…

— Suzanne Brockmann

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary…

— Raymond Queneau

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I find that nonfiction writers are the likeliest to turn out interesting novels.

— Michael Korda

People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for…

— Fran Lebowitz

Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living…

— Vincent Canby

There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of…

— Robert Gottlieb

I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to…

— Charles de Lint

Good writers are of necessity rare.

— George Henry Lewes