Being real Quote by Toby Jones

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

— Wilbur Smith

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters,…

— Sara Zarr

I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and…

— Jonathan Evison

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

— Cornelia Funke

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 always talk about my characters like they're real people.

— Dakota Fanning

I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.

— Kathryn Lasky

I'm not saying I talk to cartoon characters all the time, but the characters are very real to me. In a very non-insane way.

— Paul Dini

You read about somebody, and doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like…

— John Hartford

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known…

— William S. Burroughs

Playing a real-life character is very intriguing.

— Pratik Gandhi

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