Being who you are Quote by Pacifiersucker

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

— Chris Brogan

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have…

— Meg Cabot

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

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other…

— Paul Kane

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another…

— John Dos Passos

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with…

— Alex Garland

It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this…

— David Levithan

I often feel like that with the way I portray myself I come off as looking much worse than any of the other characters.…

— Marie Calloway

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own…

— Cassandra Clare