"My problem as a writer is that—whenever I meet someone for the first time—I immediately invent for them a personality and background that are invariably more interesting than the ones they possess. An..."
- James Rozoff
"In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessional exists. We know each other approximately, by external signs, and these serve well enough as a basi..."
- E.M. Forster
"As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character."
- Avijeet Das
"The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them."
- Claudia Bakker
"(Every great character, Iz, be it on page or screen, is multidimensional. The good guys aren't all good, and the bad guys aren't all bad, and any character wholly one or the other shouldn't exist at a..."
- David Arnold
"When I imagine changing places with her I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending---I mean the kind of ending when you never think any more about the characters."
- Dodie Smith