Character Novel Quotes
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Character Novel Quotes & Sayings
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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
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
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
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
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,
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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
