Answers Quote by Tom Barbash

“...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...”

— John Geddes

I've always kind of gravitated toward characters who are a bit distant from the narrator or the point-of-view characters, so that's kind of important…

— Noelle Stevenson

For me, with any character, there are different ways that you approach understanding him, and in this film in particular, because I had the…

— Asa Butterfield

The main character in the book is usually someone you're identifying with because the story is being told through this person's mind.

— Jay Asher

When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes…

— George R. R. Martin

I have never written a novel that volleys back and forth between a couple of different first person perspectives. It's definitely a challenge because…

— Jesmyn Ward

I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

— Molly Crabapple

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

— Anonymous

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

— David Corbett

Great novels have great characterization no matter what. But multiple points of view let me examine characters from entirely different perspectives, allowing me to…

— Sabaa Tahir

Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the…

— Zoe Kravitz

“It's all a matter of perspective. And maybe we thought we were living one story, when if we look at it a little different,…

— Kiersten White