Books Quote by Stephen King

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not…

— Jennifer Beals

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them.

— Cornelia Funke

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

— Jasper Fforde

I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels.

— Bret Easton Ellis

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings…

— Edmund White

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's a scary thing for fiction writers, when you're always writing from the point of view both as and for someone who is different.

— Alice Mattison

“Many new writers make the mistake of presenting secondary, even irrelevant characters at the start of their stories in an attempt to set the…

— Rob Parnell

In reading, you become these characters that are different from you.

— Torrey Peters

I feel character description from a book can mislead you and actually make you fall off course when you're representing a character using a…

— Will Poulter

“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