Become Quote by Tariq Ali

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

— Marguerite Young

“To have the beginning of a truly great story, you need to have a character you're completely and utterly obsessed with. Without obsession, to…

— Jennifer Salaiz

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

— Oscar Wilde

“This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, rants, facts, contrivances, and incidents are either the product of the author’s questionable imagination…

— Penny Reid

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be…

— Natalie Goldberg

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist…

— Iris Murdoch

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

— Joe Murray

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

— Anonymous

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

— Anita Desai

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

— Will Self

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the…

— Ruth Ozeki

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

— Nicholas Sparks