Character Quote by Whitley Strieber

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my…

— Joy Fielding

Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep…

— Charles Stross

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to…

— Douglas Coupland

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

— Anne Michaels

Fiction is a place where people can meet, where they take the time to very seriously examine and think about the experiences of other…

— Phil Klay

Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from writing about…

— Elif Batuman

The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist…

— Octavia E. Butler

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

— Phil Klay

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a…

— Nell Freudenberger

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the…

— Ann Brashares

I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and…

— Sara Paretsky