Top Characters Quotes

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

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 set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have...

I never draw blood on a first date.

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.

An author who does not support his or her characters does not deserve the support of readers. EVER!

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

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the r...

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

You can never know enough about your characters

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

I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books.

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

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

I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to...

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank s...

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

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

We are all characters in the book of life.

Characters are just extensions of my madness.