“Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.” BookCharacterJoyReadingVisionAnxietyReading BooksGreat JoyJoy Of ReadingLiterary Characters Author:Stephen Mangan
“A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.” MadeCharacterMovementMachinesLiterary Characters Author:William Carlos Williams
“So the fact that there's someone who's planning what happens to the characters, writing it down, means that the characters always have a fate. And when we think about fate, we tend think of it as the thing we would have if we were literary characters, that is, if there were somebody out there, writing us.” IfsThinkingWritingMeanCharacterFactsHappensFatePlanningLiterary Characters Author:Daniel Kehlmann
“Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages” FeelsCharacterCareComfortablePagesTreatedGrandmotherFrightenedFragileMy GrandmotherApparitionsLiterary Characters Book:My invented country: a memoir Source: My invented country: a memoir
“A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader.” WorldWantFeelsWritingCharacterHelpingPoliticalReadingFictionReaderPerceptionGatesFictional CharacterLiterary Characters Author:Caryl Phillips