Able Quote by Stephen Coonts

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous,…

— John Banville

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Because as any writer will tell you, an IDEA for a book is like falling in love, it's all wild emotion and headlong rush,…

— Ben H. Winters

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that.…

— Vikram Seth

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to…

— Douglas Coupland

It's a challenge of to write a narrator who is doing something that is really unlikeable and morally questionable. A lot of times, you…

— Alissa Nutting

“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

“A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning desire to…

— Suzanne Brockmann

The truth about being a writer is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not choose, therefore,…

— Rosa Montero

“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect…

— C.K. Webb

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