Books Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out…

— Katie Cassidy

I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

— Emily Giffin

Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they almost always…

— Dacia Maraini

I always have to start with a character that I can really hook into, and then build from there. I have writer friends who…

— Katie Wech

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

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

I like to have a much greater base and know a lot more about my character before I begin to fill the person. So…

— Sophia Bush

My books, I will say one thing - they all have a driving narrative, and you have to turn the pages, and the way…

— Elin Hilderbrand

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with…

— Kevin Spacey

I get very invested in characters; it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.

— Gail Simone

I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with…

— Wendy Wasserstein

I usually focus on the whole group of characters in any given work-in-progress, and as a result they become particularly dear to me as…

— Vera Nazarian