Being honest Quote by Robin Hobb

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only…

— Russell Hoban

Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth…

— Sarah Waters

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

— Jacqueline Carey

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own…

— Cassandra Clare

Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.

— Terry Goodkind

When you are writing, you have to love all your characters. If you're writing something from a minor character's point of view, you really…

— Robin Hobb

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

— Miranda July

When I wrote my first story, all the characters were teenagers because I think 16, 17 is a great age.

— Julie Kagawa

I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.

— Morris Chestnut

I've long been interested in the role of 'minor characters' in major events. This has been the focus of a lot of the fiction…

— Thomas Mallon

As a kid, I was always very into secondary characters - things that weren't supposed to be the focus. The kind of people that…

— Julio Torres