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Have the courage to analyze great emotions to create characters who shall be lofty and true. The whole art of the analytical novel lies there. — Paul Bourget

What is either a picture or a novel that is not character? — Henry James

I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways. — Kiese Laymon

Good or evil, it doesn't really matter, so long as your novel's character is interesting. — Mark Rubinstein

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer. — Romola Garai

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself. — Jonathan Franzen

There is no 'right' way to begin a novel, but for me, plot has to wait. The character comes first. — Susan Isaacs

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind. — Kevin Henkes

In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody. — Jesse Michaels

It's when you feel worse, that's when your character comes out and the last thing you want to do is quit. — Paul T. Scheuring

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. — Milan Kundera

Isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much? — Kirstin Van Dyke

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella.
(spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa) — Mario Vargas-Llosa

If you don't care about the main character in a novel, then you probably won't care about the story either. — Giuseppe Bianco

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself. — Norman Mailer

Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart. — Linda W. Yezak

In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all. — D.H. Lawrence

Parenthood doesn't improve one's character, it exposes it. — Leslie A. Gordon

Consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ... — John Geddes

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel. — Rose Tremain

Tragedy, after all, is the invisible hand that spawns reflection, and reflection bears its fruit in the deepening of one's character. — Richard Harris

It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality. — Victor Hugo

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. — Antonio Tabucchi

Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though. — Victor LaValle

'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on. — Jim Rash

Journalism can go right up to the door of the room in which the decisions are made. A novel can go inside the room - and inside the character's heads. — David Frum

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages. — Ruskin Bond

For me, the main inspiration to write a story or novel is the voice of its central character, or the narrative voice of the story itself. — Scott Bradfield

Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise. — E. M. Forster

Dude, if you stare at me any longer you'll end up as a twisted character in my wife's next novel. — Mantissa Etherbright

The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from. — Val McDermid

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character. — Salman Rushdie

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel. — David Antin

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

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem. — Jeff Britting

I can resist anything except temptation. Ren, main character in Sherrilyn Kenyon's novel Time Untime. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel. — Harper Lee

If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters. — J.K. Rowling

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over. — Elizabeth Moon

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down. — Agnes Repplier

Apparently, he was too busy living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine. — Melissa Kantor

It must always be considered as though spoken by a character in a novel — Roland Barthes