Writing Characters Quotes
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Characters begin as your children and become your teachers.
— Chloe Thurlow
Only my characters truly know what's going on - I just hold the pen.
— Sandra J. Jackson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand 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 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
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
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
Look, don't just stare at the pages," I used to tell my students. "Become the characters. Live inside the book.
— Wally Lamb
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
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
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
— Ernest Hemingway,
