Character Quote by Alice Hoffman

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

When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this cyclical nightmare…

— Ben Feldman

I'm a very visual thinker, so the characters are running through my head, doing what they're doing when I'm writing them. And there'll be…

— Paul Dini

My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me, I talk…

— Judy Blume

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last…

— Paul Auster

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts…

— Sheila Heti

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped…

— Charles de Lint

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I…

— Tayari Jones

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting.…

— Lauren Oliver

Most of the time, when I'm writing, I'm writing for myself. I'm thinking, 'What will my character say at this time? What will come…

— Katori Hall

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap,…

— Zoe Kazan