Book Character Quotes

Book Character Quote of the day

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go. You are changed in some way, large or small, by having traveled with those characters.

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books.

I do like to explore evil characters in my books.

Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in the books.

I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet. Our spirits by the love we give.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

The book tells you everything you need to know. The book is the map of the world that you're in with the character.

The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.

I definitely feel like when I write a book it's not my job to police or guide the readers. The book and the characters don't belong to me anymore. If that makes sense.

He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

There’s no better way to get to know a city than to walk its streets. A place will reveal its soul through its sights, sounds and smells, and eventually, it’ll teach you its rhythm.

Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.