Business Quote by William S. Burroughs

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

— Wilbur Smith

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

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

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

— S. E. Hinton

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I have many characters inspired from real life.

— Vivek Agnihotri

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel,…

— Sidney Sheldon

I'm very interested in people, so if a character happens to be real, there's that much more to look at.

— Toby Jones

I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

— Emily Giffin

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I do tend to have characters that I guess are in some way loners or dealing with obstacles that they have to confront that…

— Craig Gillespie