Fictional Characters On Writing Quotes

#1. Look seeker, if you love a character, you give them pain, ruin their lives, make them suffer. Maybe even throw in a heroic death!

Varric Tethras

#2. Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.

William Rose Benet

#3. To be trained in karate is something because karate is a vicious thing. If you are any good at it, you can kill somebody with it. It is a vicious way to fight.

Thomas Foran

#4. Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.
the people of Lake Woebegon

Garrison Keillor

#5. We need radical dietary improvement, and the earlier in life that change is made, the better. Just following a vegan diet or eating a few more vegetables is not enough.

Joel Fuhrman

#6. The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

Louis Theroux

#7. I don't live in London - I'm based in Norfolk and have a place in Scotland.

Martin Shaw

#8. I'm a blank canvas that I can paint however I desire. For the first time ever, I get to be the character in my own fantasy land.

E.K. Blair

#9. For four days straights, I sit at my typewriter in my bedroom. Twenty of my typed pages, full of slashes and red-circled edits, become thirty-one in thick Strathmore white.

Kathryn Stockett

#10. Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.

John Banville

#11. A writer often wants to change a reader's perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader.

Caryl Phillips

#12. He did an excellent Tarik impression, bringing his voice low and softly accenting the ends of his sentences. Scrubber, his raccoon, flailed and squirmed on the ground, pretending to be Monte himself. It was a light moment in the

Eliot Schrefer

#13. Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

Johnny Rich

#14. I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of the chapel is also borrowed from Colby ... but the students and cast of characters are fictional.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#15. There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine.

Varric Tethras

#16. Yeah, apparently chasing a bus uses different muscles than sitting and eating.

Drew Carey

#17. The characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it

Marti Melville

#18. Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.

Sanhita Baruah

#19. I didn't suffer for Jesus in prison. No! I was with Jesus and I experienced his very real presence, joy, and peace every day. It's not those in prison for the sake of the gospel who suffer. The person who suffers is he who never experiences God's intimate presence.

Brother Yun

#20. A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.

W.J. Raymond

#21. The Gothic tradition was begun by Ann Radcliffe, a rare example of a woman creating an artistic style.

Camille Paglia

#22. Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn.

Robin McKinley

#23. But most men don't expect women to do all the work at home. They just don't care whether or not the laundry gets done or the beds get made. That's a critical distinction.

Suzanne Venker

#24. My favorite involves you wearing your black dominatrix boots."
"What else am I wearing?"
"Nothing."
"What are you wearing?"
"A hard-on and a smile.

Rachel Gibson

#25. Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.

Edward Rutherfurd

#26. I take writing very seriously. There's a lot of responsibility in putting blood in the veins of fictional characters.

Brooklyn Hudson

#27. With Sue as companion he could have renounced his ambitions with a smile. Without her it was inevitable that the reaction from the long strain to which he had subjected himself should affect him disastrously.

Thomas Hardy

#28. Why bother with fictional characters and plots when the world was full of more marvelous stories that were true, with characters so fresh, so powerful, so new, that they stepped from into the narratives under their own power?

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#29. I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.

Ann Brashares