Character Quote by Philipp Meyer

“What we call consciousness is our ability to perceive stimuli and to file it within the parameters of our personal story.”

— Steve Maraboli

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

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being…

— Eudora Welty

Writing, for me, when I'm writing in the first-person, is like a form of acting. So as I'm writing, the character or self I'm…

— Sheila Heti

“The telling and the hearing of a story is not a simple act. The one who tells must reach down into deeper layers of…

— Susan Griffin

Even when I'm writing in character I'm normally still writing about things I know or things that have happened to me or using that…

— Karen Walker

“Your story is not a picture of life; it lacks the elements of truth. And why? Simply because you run straight on to the…

— Jules Verne

One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a…

— Rachel Kushner

“You can call it God or a conscience, or you can dismiss it as that intuitive knowing we all have as human beings, as…

— Donald Miller

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 am writing a novel, the setting, the characters, the action is clear in mind when I start -- so I believe. But…

— P.D. James

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

— Anne Rice