Author Character Quotes

For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself.

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.

If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of their personality.

A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.