Character Quote by Steven Knight

This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't…

— Arthur Golden

I would never want to write a character who was not thoroughly herself or himself. She's a very specific creature in my mind, and…

— Lynne Tillman

I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find a funny,…

— Charles R. Morris

Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

— Mark Lawrence

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“If my sister were a character in a Victorian drama, she would be the snobbish rich girl with a penchant for talking shit about…

— Heather Demetrios

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look…

— Margery Allingham

I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people…

— Michael C. Hall

There is a core of people who know and love Madam C.J. Walker, but there's a much larger audience who don't really know about…

— A'Lelia Bundles

I felt like that character in Flowers for Algernon. Not Charlie, the lady teacher from the college who realizes, 'I've got to stop dry-humping…

— Tina Fey

I don't even know if Stephenie [Meyer] could tell you why she was so fixated on [Twilight] very, very contained story about these very…

— Robert Pattinson