Aspect Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.

— Taika Waititi

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

— Aziz Ansari

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

— MacKenzie Scott

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people…

— Maeve Binchy

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect…

— S. E. Hinton

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

— S. E. Hinton

I have done versatile characters from the beginning of my career.

— Sanjeeda Sheikh

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

— Robert Englund

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

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

— Rick Riordan

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known…

— William S. Burroughs

To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.

— Wilbur Smith