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Characters begin as your children and become your teachers. — Chloe Thurlow

Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity. — Glen Keane

Only my characters truly know what's going on - I just hold the pen. — Sandra J. Jackson

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was. — Martha Grimes

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. — William Gibson

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing. — Richard LaGravenese

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype. — James Earl Jones

Writers don't kill characters. Characters kill characters. — MariaLisa DeMora

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction. — Alice Hoffman

Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***. — David Mamet

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters. — Aaron Sorkin

Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own. — Federico Chini

There's power in stories, though. That's all history is: the best tales. The ones that last. Might as well be mine. — Varric Tethras

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me. — Lian Hearn

Two characters and sexy banter do not a book make, damn it. — Sherry Thomas

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter. — David Benioff

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them. — Anthony Trollope

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story. — Karen Blixen

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story — Brandt Legg

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up. — Ann Brashares

Don't have every dialog go in a straight line to solve the problem. Let your characters argue, be sarcastic, disagree or joke around. — Dan Alatorre

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters. — Kathy Reichs

I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear. — Michael K. Williams

I've learned to let my characters speak and act the way they want to! I've tried to interfere but they just get angry at me and throw big rocks. — Shandy L. Kurth

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access. — Ayana Mathis

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it. — Kevin James Breaux

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience. — Robert Holdstock

Voice is really about letting your characters loose. — C.S. Lakin

If I had a clear vision, none of my books would be what they are. I've got to let the characters show me the way. — Shandy L. Kurth

Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters. — Patricia Hamill

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them. — Paul Auster

Believe in your characters with all your heart, & they will believe in you. Only then will they trust you enough to reveal themselves.
-RCSJR — Robert Clifton Storey Jr.

I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am. — Cleveland W. Gibson

You mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly ... — John Geddes

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person. — Umberto Eco

Characters are just extensions of my madness. — Mark Tilbury

All the characters on the album are inside me, though none are me. They are sides of me or who I was. — David Berman

Out of silence I begin to hear the voices of characters whispering snippets of a story to me. — Chuck Waldron

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel. — Harper Lee

You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never leave you alone! — Christy Hall

I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be better, to elevate my game. — Julie Ann Emery

I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep. — Astrid 'Artistikem' Cruz

The characters write the plot. Their natures do. — Norman Rush

I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them. — Charlie Kaufman

The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them. — Michael Ian Black

I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart. — Carla H. Krueger

There's a certain magic about writing even when the characters refuse to act the way I want them to. — Gloria Bevan

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress

Writing complex characters is the penultimate exercise in empathy. — Kevin Focke

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web. — Nicole Krauss

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind. — Alice Walker

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body. — Christopher Stocking

Creating characters is easy. It's getting them to behave that's the problem. — Steven Ramirez

Ending a book with a sequel in such a way that the reader still has faith in the characters and in the writer. That's finesse. — Shandy L. Kurth

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better. — Dacia Maraini

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me
and treating me badly. — Jorge Luis Borges

Me to characters: talk to me people. — Buffy Andrews

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result. — Louis Sachar

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them. — Rosamunde Pilcher

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters. — Cynthia Ozick

Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters. — Brian A. McBride

I'm really just playing when I write. I feel like I'm a kid again. I want my characters to do and say things like when I played with dolls! — Lori Lesko

To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. — Sol Stein

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song. — Dolly Parton

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had. — Aziz Ansari

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. — Joss Whedon

A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough. — Edmund Wallace Hildick

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean. — Michelle M. Pillow

Just when I think I have nothing to say, the characters start to speak. Writing is funny like that. — J.D. Barker

I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters. — Daniel Woodrell

Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our writing. — Jyoti Arora

The characters tell their story - I am merely the tool used to record it — Marti Melville

When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters. — Kerry Greenwood

When you write a novel you have to live with the characters for a long time. So I prefer short stories. I never wrote anything more than 250 pages. — Ruskin Bond

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end? — Johnny Rich

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place. — Annie Proulx

I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against. — Lauren Groff

Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things. — Jim Rash

Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book. — Wally Lamb

Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter. — Tina Fey

Pilot scripts are particularly difficult to write because you have to introduce all the characters without it feeling like a series of introductions. — Tina Fey

Look seeker, if you love a character, you give them pain, ruin their lives, make them suffer. Maybe even throw in a heroic death! — Varric Tethras

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life. — Cassandra Clare

I love when the characters take over and live their own lives. I get to watch and write it all down. — Anna Adams

I am not in control of how my characters live their lives, only in writing it down. — Kim Iverson

Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012! — Stella Atrium

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

If there weren't so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Just me, my music, and the voices in my head. — Christie Silvers

Violence can read like poetry. You just have to describe the act as if you're in love with the way your characters bleed. — F.K. Preston

Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters. — Teresa Mummert

My best writing has to do with an internal process that I'm working out unconsciously and put into my characters. — Lyle Kessler

All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals. — J.A. Konrath

I don't write stories, I write characters. — Bhavya Kaushik

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing. — Clive Owen

People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter. — Nick Thune

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. — Ernest Hemingway,

Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.
the people of Lake Woebegon — Garrison Keillor

It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing. — Debi Gliori

Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters ... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols. — Ernest Hemingway,