I have specific playlists for different books and…

I like to listen to music that fits with what I'm writing. For each book, I've assembled a playlist, so readers can get a…

— Cassandra Clare

Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive task. Or,…

— Rebecca Serle

When you have a lot of people playing different characters, you need to do justice to every character and bring meaning to their presence…

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

Male playwrights, on the whole, are probably more interested in male characters. They need women characters to be the women in their lives or…

— Harriet Walter

In a play, a few actors perform a few characters, and they need to perform those characters with a certain level of believability so…

— Pankaj Kapur

I always play outsiders. I think I'm carrying a lot of those characters and I wonder if I play them because those characters need…

— Zawe Ashton

I've worked out a Ninja Replacement Score for novels. It's basically the number of characters that need to be replaced by ninjas to make…

— Janni Lee Simner

“You also need love. Your characters need to love something, otherwise they will be unlovable.”

— James Franco

I think negative characters need to be cast in the best possible way because it has an impact on the film.

— Mukesh Rishi

The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good As It Gets' - it just doesn't work, because…

— Patrick Rothfuss

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and…

— Jordana Brewster

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over…

— Angela Kinsey

I just thought that if you are going to do a one-woman show you need to come with it, you know? Don't just stand…

— Kim Wayans

In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level,…

— Shawn Ryan

Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still.

— Laurence Fishburne