Alive Quote by Abhishek Banerjee

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people…

— Art Alexakis

Multiple characters' opinions on societal roles, as well as their perceptions of themselves and others, help me lose myself in whatever strange and wonderful…

— Sabaa Tahir

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

— Edward Norton

I'm glad I get to do characters. It's just like a Polaroid shot of whoever the person is, and to me, anyway, that's kind…

— Fred Armisen

[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine…

— August Strindberg

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

It's just wonderful to be able to write about what my characters are thinking.

— Ruth Jones

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

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…

— Paul Auster

It's important to me that I need to know what my character is about.

— Sameera Reddy

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

— Rachelle Lefevre

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters…

— Rick Moody