Book Character Quotes
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Book Character Quotes & Sayings
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In a book you can really talk about ideas and themes and characters in a deeper way than you can even on the screen.
— Noah Hawley
Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.
— David McCullough
After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.
— Maggie Stiefvater
The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar.
— Gabriel Ba
Sometimes I'll ask the book writer to write a monologue, not to be performed, just as if they were notes for the character.
— Stephen Sondheim
When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.
— Jonathan Franzen
When I get lost in a book, I forget about all my problems because I'm so engrossed in the character's lives.
— Kaitlyn Hoyt
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.
— Maureen Corrigan
The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.
— Orison Swett Marden
Each book should be an entity unto itself, with its own structure, character, life, name.
— Edward Hirsch
As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.
— Kadir Nelson
There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot.
— S.M. Stirling
There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Character, that subtle art, disappeared among them during those days and nights, existed only in a book or on a painted wall.
— Michael Ondaatje
A true fiction author is able to act through each character in their book and deliver stunning performances.
— Conrad Brasso
Isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much?
— Kirstin Van Dyke
In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book.
— Hattie McDaniel
Our goal is not to finish a book, or merely to talk about a book, but to use our books to grow Christlike character — Tony Reinke
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.
— Edwin Arlington Robinson
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
— Walter Kaufmann
I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died. — Joyce Rachelle
Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.
— Roy Blount Jr.
With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.
— Olivia Munn
I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.
— Michael Connelly
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[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.
— Dorothy Parker
I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.
— John Le Carre
It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as books.
— Baltasar Gracian
Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.
— Richard Cecil
Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.
— Cassandra Clare
We had 1 book, the phone book, I've read it, it wasn't a great read, lots of characters, and on the end loads of polish people turn up.
— Stephen K. Amos
Characters are the lifeblood of anygood book. — Craig Hart
When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters.
— Channing Tatum
Graphic designers judge a cover by its book.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The really cool thing about when you're playing a comic book character is that no one knows what he sounds like.
— Josh McDermitt
As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
— Matt LeBlanc
When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?
— Laurell K. Hamilton
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
— Alan Lightman
I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
— Judy Blume
I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.
— Morris Gleitzman
Gomez is a by-the-book cop. He's the only character not to break bad.
— Steven Michael Quezada
I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.
— Gail Simone
The author says one character's definition of a classic is any book he'd heard of before he was thirty.
— Sinclair Lewis
When my books were translated, it was always about the characters, because the unique language aspect was lost in translation.
— Etgar Keret
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.
— Ernest Cline
I put my heart and soul into my book - great story and awesome characters ... yet people are trying to pull me down.
— Nick Simmons
I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else.
— Curtis Sittenfeld
Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.
— James Howe
You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones.
— Nicolas Winding Refn
If I could play any character from the book though it'd be Church. Who wouldn't want to be a cat?!
— Jamie Campbell Bower
If you spend long enough realizing a character in your book, congratulations, you've made a friend for life.
— Michael R. French
Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.
— S.W. Frank
Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot - but not twice.
— Diana Gabaldon
When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.
— Asa Butterfield
A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose.
— Kristin Cashore
I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
— Rachel Kushner
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
— Norman Macleod
With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
— Nicholas A. Basbanes
Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.
— Mark Lawrence
I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.
— Grace Cavalieri
The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.
— Joyce Rachelle
You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader.
— Unknown
Our minds are shaped by the books we read. Our characters, by the people we meet.
Our spirits by the love we give. — Robin Sharma
Hey, GreenHollyWood ruin my vision. I don't want to be gay... because what's shown in Mr.Robot it's geysish, mother fucker!
— Deyth Banger
It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.
— James Patterson
Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.
— Janet Goodfriend
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
— Alan Dean Foster
