Books Quote by Rose Tremain

My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to…

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.

— Marcia Clark

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

— Tillie Olsen

I love fiction's ability to allow me to inhabit a wholly different life.

— Rumaan Alam

I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my…

— Jenny Offill

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in…

— Laurie Graham

I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and…

— Sara Paretsky

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

— Georges Simenon

Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that makes the…

— Alexander Chee

With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I…

— Ray McKinnon

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

— Oscar Wilde

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are,…

— Thomas Middleditch