Top Characters Quotes

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 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...

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

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.

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.

The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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...

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

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly...

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.

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