Book Quote by Rachel Kushner

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

The main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind.

— Jay Asher

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

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

If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the…

— Margaret Atwood

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the…

— Ann Brashares

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

— Monica Ali

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

— Ruth Ozeki

Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met…

— Grant Morrison

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