Character Quote by Amitava Kumar

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know…

— Cassandra Clare

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes.

— Gerrit Noordzij

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

— Armando Iannucci

My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when I sit…

— Cynthia Voigt

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

— Chuck Jones

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

— James Earl Jones

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

— Allan Gurganus

Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the…

— Aimee Carter

Where does a character come from? Because a character, at the end of the day, a character will be the combination of the writing…

— Brian Henson

Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors.…

— Noy Holland