Believe Quote by Sara Paretsky

“I'd said to them that when we read fiction, we pour our own paricular store of emotions - say, the sense of loss we…

— Chandler Burr

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and…

— Whitley Strieber

Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we…

— C.S. Lewis

“Any fiction writer who has never had his work misunderstood couldn't have written a lot. Somehow along the way you are going to run…

— Rotimi Ogunjobi

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

— Marilynne Robinson

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting.…

— Lauren Oliver

Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from writing about…

— Elif Batuman

I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because…

— Alan Cumming

A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from…

— Lynn Flewelling

“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,”…

— Sōseki Natsume

As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have to find…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon