Books Quote by Sabaa Tahir

The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has…

— Candace Camp

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

— Nicholas Sparks

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

— Michael Morpurgo

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the…

— Ann Brashares

“An important feature of good characterization in a novel is that the characters are dimensionalized and are not all of one piece. Human beings,…

— Joseph Telushkin

Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in…

— Sean Bean

For me, the best characters are the ones that feel fully formed inside and out, so I try to have a very clear vision…

— Nick Kroll

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are…

— Little Simz

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary…

— Raymond Queneau

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out…

— Katie Cassidy

I've always kind of gravitated toward characters who are a bit distant from the narrator or the point-of-view characters, so that's kind of important…

— Noelle Stevenson