Character Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon

My father was my hero, both for the physical things he could do and for the values he taught me, about honesty and standing…

— Jack Hemingway

My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are also stories…

— Livia Bitton-Jackson

All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself.

— Shoojit Sircar

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people…

— Maeve Binchy

My stories are character driven.

— Terry McMillan

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and…

— Jodie Foster

I'm always touched by people's different stories of who they are and why they made the choices that they made. I feel so empowered…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you must live…

— Akira Kurosawa

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the…

— Naguib Mahfouz

All my stories and worlds spring from the basic principle of being a slave to the premise, to follow the consequences wherever they may…

— Karin Tidbeck

I always believed in my characters. I lived them

— Irene Dunne

One of the things I stress to those I meet, especially young people, is that we are the heroes of our own lives, and…

— Kameron Hurley