Alive Quote by Akira Kurosawa

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that…

— Francine Rivers

My process is pretty messy, and there's a lot of creative destruction in it. When I set out to write something, I'll write some…

— Jesse Andrews

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

— Jodi Picoult

I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them.

— Sebastian Lelio

Before I ever begin writing a new story, I have to sketch my characters out on paper. It's part of my process of understanding…

— Marie Lu

There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that one of…

— Julia Glass

We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you are thinking…

— Meg Wolitzer

I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two…

— Judy Blume

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters…

— A. S. Byatt

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

— Aziz Ansari