Character Quote by Richard Greenberg

The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life where she…

— Danielle Dutton

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again,…

— Joel Coen

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

With every character that I've ever played, I felt like I just understood the way that she thought and how she was.

— Josephine Langford

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Character is the plot in many ways

— Junot Diaz

I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that…

— Hugh Dancy

Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.

— Bob Mayer

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot…

— Terry Pratchett

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

— Jane Espenson

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of…

— Kate Morton

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

— Patrick Rothfuss