Character Quote by Rasika Dugal

Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.

— Iris Murdoch

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

Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.

— Willy Mason

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

— Michael Zaslow

So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.

— Peter Hedges

I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that…

— Louis L'Amour

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

— Jasper Fforde

The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. Im caught up in the story…

— Iris Johansen

I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn't.

— Adam Silvera

Anything that feels like good characters, I am excited to do whether I write it or not. But if I don't find it in…

— Susanna Fogel

The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand…

— Jaume Cabre

One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's…

— Truman Capote