Admirable Quote by Scarlett Thomas

Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all the time.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“The quality of someone's character is not based on what they do for others when the whole world is around. The true quality of…

— Cam Billings

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“People are naturally drawn to characters that are obviously good at what they do. Have you ever wondered why you might identify”

— Rob Parnell

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

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

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in…

— Aidan Gillen

Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their own lives.…

— Stephen King

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and…

— Callie Khouri

Depending on what you believe as a person, there's always redeeming qualities to every character or individual, as spiteful as they might be.

— David Boreanaz

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters…

— Rick Moody

I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of character because I've had to judge a lot of characters.

— Kyle Korver