Books Quote by Stephenie Meyer

When I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters.…

— Stephenie Meyer

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

— Cornelia Funke

A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I try to…

— Dennis Cooper

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them…

— Allan Massie

To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.

— Wilbur Smith

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped…

— Charles de Lint

I believe in storytelling, not story-selling. I want people to believe the characters are real. So I'm a realist.

— Morgan Spurlock

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

— Paul Auster

“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?”

— Jim Power

It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not; if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care about them…

— Salman Rushdie

In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having…

— Regina Doman

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets…

— Caroline B. Cooney