Top Characters Quotes

I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.

George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple iden...

In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.

Typically, we start out with enthusiasm and then grow unsure--sometimes about everything.

It's not a romance, it's a love story.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.

I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that.

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.

Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.

Just me, my music, and the voices in my head.

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.

We are all characters in the book of life.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

Characters are just extensions of my madness.

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly.

I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. I have peeped shamelessly into hearts and bathroom closets. I have leant over shoulders to follow the movements of quills as...