Quote by Stephen King

“My characters tell me how they feel about other characters and events and they demand that I write it down for them.”

— Lindsay Marene Ordone

“I think I've been very lucky. The readers who write to me say they like the characters and the sense of a real world,…

— Sophie Weston

“At times, quotes from the books talk more about our lives than on the lives of the characters.”

— John Green

“Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your…

— Michael J. Kannengieser

“If they are good characters, they have minds of their owns. If they are great characters, they go stomping off into the sunset and…

— Wendi Kelly

“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.”

— Molly Evangeline

“Characters are like kids. They want to be played with, taken on adventures. And they won't let you rest until you do.”

— Buffy Andrews

“It was as if I'd been in the middle of a book that I had to put down when I got too tired to…

— Joyce Maynard

“What does it say about me that I'm jealous of the lives of fictional characters?”

— Alyssa Goodnight

“Characters, for good or evil, are part of an author's family. Once we have let them out of our imaginations, they stay with us…

— Andrew Ferrell

“I've grown addicted to the characters in my favorite novels. If only they were real...”

— Devonnie A. Black

“Perhaps I shall take my fortune and retire to the country and read novels where other characters must bother with these sorts of troubles.”

— Maya Rodale