Character Quote by Toni Morrison

I would probably struggle a bit more with a really dramatic serious-intent story. You have to really bring it. My brain is so comically…

— Justin Roiland

I think I would choose to do things because they are interesting, because I like a character or because it's very well-written. Or because…

— Elodie Yung

The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night…

— Ann Patchett

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

— Iain Banks

I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd…

— Linda Hamilton

My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside…

— Flannery O'Connor

I would spend my time telling stories or writing them.

— Robert Mugabe

I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and…

— Anonymous

I would play the lead role in films which have scripts that suit me.

— Karunas

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

— Anonymous

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

— Elizabeth Moon

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

— Dana Spiotta