Aspect Quote by Terry Pratchett

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

— W. E. B. Griffin

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

— Edward Albee

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice,…

— Napoleon Hill

An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in this kind…

— Charles M. Schulz

When it comes to the look of a character, it plays a very important role in shaping up a character's personality.

— Madalsa Sharma

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

— Anonymous

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When you are writing a novel, you as the author will wear many hats. You are the writer, reader, and most importantly you are…

— LaQuita Cameron

“The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of…

— Oscar Wilde

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

— Monica Ali