Books Quote by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

— Anthony Horowitz

I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.

— Joe Murray

Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite…

— Robert Asprin

If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the…

— Margaret Atwood

Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace where they…

— Robert Cormier

To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really get it,…

— Kevin Bacon

“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

— Monica Ali

If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations…

— Lynn Nottage

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar