Answers Quote by Robert Walser

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

— W. E. B. Griffin

“Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad at real…

— Alexander McCall Smith

Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

Before I ever begin writing a new story, I have to sketch my characters out on paper. It's part of my process of understanding…

— Marie Lu

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

— Anthony Horowitz

What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying…

— Tobias Wolff

“He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by actually being…

— Colin Bateman

Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people.

— Henry Williamson

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect…

— Anonymous

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“Our lives are like books; we are merely characters in each other's stories. While we can impact each other's plotlines, respecting the authorship of…

— Erick "The Black Sheep" G