Books Quote by Salman Rushdie

All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can…

— Stephenie Meyer

A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I try to…

— Dennis Cooper

When I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters.…

— Stephenie Meyer

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

— Cornelia Funke

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them…

— Allan Massie

“Audiences often ask if characters are based on real people. Indeed the impulse of the amateur is to write about who one knows. The…

— Anonymous

To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.

— Wilbur Smith

I'm very interested in people, so if a character happens to be real, there's that much more to look at.

— Toby Jones

I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and…

— Jonathan Evison

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some…

— Jill McCorkle

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and…

— Jordana Brewster

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

— Ernest Hemingway