Quotes on “characters”

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

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

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, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.