Character Quote by Orson Scott Card

If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if…

— Anonymous

I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being a person,…

— Tao Lin

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

— Chris Brogan

“The characters who go to make up my stories and novels are not portraits. Characters I invent along with the story that carries them.…

— Eudora Welty

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

— S. E. Hinton

People can have whatever ideas that they like. But what I'm not OK with is my character being in question.

— August Alsina

I focus on characters as individuals with attitudes and write each scene from a particular character's point of view. That way, even narrative passages…

— Elmore Leonard

When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes…

— George R. R. Martin

I'm asking the reader to suspend reality with me and entertain the idea that the person writing is not me. In order to do…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

When I'm writing, especially when I'm writing in first person, I don't think about the characterization, or how they are going to express themselves,…

— Richard Matheson

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

“Any fiction writer who has never had his work misunderstood couldn't have written a lot. Somehow along the way you are going to run…

— Rotimi Ogunjobi