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Is it the freedom of characters in fiction that we find so inspiring, or the way that freedom transforms them? — Marc Levy

When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views. — Orson Scott Card

There are only two things you'll ever need to know about me, Farin - and you should know them well. I'm very smart, and I'm very rich. — Heather O'Brien

Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. — Vanessa M Chattman

Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories. — Susannah Mansfield

Why do I feel like this is our destiny. There must be a reason why we have become our characters. — David Kuklis

What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do. — Pat Barker

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters. — Kathy Reichs

Vladimir Nabokov, contemning readers who "identified" with characters in fiction, remarked that the best readers identify with the artist. — Joseph Epstein

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation. — George R R Martin

I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure. — Tananarive Due

She's only a girl. What kind of men are you?'
'Dead ones?' asked Drith, who yanked the door open and put her sword through Narses' throat. — Donna Thorland

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden. — John Podhoretz

Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being. — Ken Scott

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Once you break someone's heart, you are forever its master. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South. — Janisse Ray

A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear. — Cinda Williams Chima

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens. — Rudy Rucker

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader. — W.J. Raymond

Women are interesting characters. Their very nature breeds mystery. — Susan Wingate

I read mostly science-fiction and fantasy when I was a teenager, and I was always drawn to stories where the characters had telepathic powers. — Ruth Glick

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea. — Anne Michaels

Any similarity between existing people and certain characters in this book is due solely to insight into human nature. — Dimitri Verhulst

Nothing on earth in fiction is less interesting than characters under the influence of alcohol. — John L'Heureux

The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction. — Donald Miller

I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even. — Edan Lepucki

Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

I shook my head back and forth as though I was a human etch-a-sketch, erasing the memory. — Nicole Gulla

If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters. — Jane Gardam

Writing is a solitary business. It's just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill. — Shannon Celebi

I love fictional characters ... they can't break your heart. — Julia Hall

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters. — Phil Klay

I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre. — Alaina Huffman

Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. — Robert Morgan

I trust my characters. They know their stories better than I do. — Rayne Hall

You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night. — Monroe Ariel

The chief offense in bad fiction: we sense that characters are being manipulated, forced to do things they would not really do. — John Gardner

Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves. — Sarah Van Arsdale

You're a lady. It's written all over you, but the West doesn't forgive any woman-unless she's got a man. — Liliana Shelbrook

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction. — H.G.Wells

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end? — Johnny Rich

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do. — Alexander McCall Smith

The characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it — Marti Melville

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

I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters. — Quentin Tarantino

I couldn't shake this feeling that I had uncovered more than something ordinary. — Nicole Gulla

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. — Oscar Wilde

This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer. — Meryl S. Kavanagh

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary. — Franklin P. Adams

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them. — Iain Banks

Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn't in vain, he was able to justify his presence. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you're in love with the way your characters bleed. — F.K. Preston

Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another. — Elizabeth Bowen

Characters are just extensions of my madness. — Mark Tilbury

Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems. — Vivian Vande Velde

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body. — Christopher Stocking

If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them. — Douglas Coupland

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters. — Cynthia Ozick

No one wants to rattle the cage of a "crazy" person whose family tends to snap. — Nicole Gulla

I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions. — Sharon Creech

Fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all. — Hiromu Arakawa

Unable to explore setting, conflict, characters or themes in their fiction, the mainstreamers wrote more and more eloquently about nothing at all. — Dave Wolverton

When giving up is not an option, you survive at any cost. — Liliana Shelbrook