Character Quote by Peter De Vries

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

— Manuel Puig

A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws…

— Bill Barich

“Characters in novels sometimes radiate more energy, therefore, when we don’t enter their mind. It is one of the techniques a novelist acquires instinctively—don’t…

— Norman Mailer

If you read something and you want to do it, nothing gets in your way, you figure out how to bring that character to…

— Fred Hechinger

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

In novels you're able to occupy character's internal thoughts and it's really hard to do in a film or a TV show. When you're…

— Joe Meno

“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against every text…

— Betsy Lerner

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

— Patrick Modiano

“A great number of elements in the characters’ lives, both psychic and factual, are not communicated to us. […] These characters, I believe, enjoy…

— Pierre Bayard

“A writer can never escape the labyrinth of words inside his mind.”

— K.D. Green

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own…

— Stephen Mangan

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what,…

— Marcel Proust