I don't always understand my characters. I write to…

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

— Paulo Coelho

I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.

— Joan Didion

“I don't write to be understood; I write to understand.”

— Robert Cecil Day-Lewis

I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.

— Julia Alvarez

I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try to share…

— Paulo Coelho

“I hear and I forget I see and I remember,sometimes I write and understand”

— Derek Smith

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can…

— Jason Mraz

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

— Elie Wiesel

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because…

— Isabel Allende

I always have to find things that I relate to and understand in the characters that I play; otherwise, it won't feel that authentic.

— KiKi Layne

The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.

— Skeet Ulrich

Without sounding defensive, I would say that sometimes TV critics assume that after a few episodes the writers 'finally understand the characters,' and as…

— Jesse Armstrong

To my way of thinking, whether it's a superhero movie or a romance or a comedy or whatever, the most important thing is you've…

— Stan Lee

The most important thing for me in an action sequence is, you understand the characters' intention and the challenges the characters are going to…

— Simon Kinberg

A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act, in a…

— Susan Minot