Abstract Quote by Ann Brashares

Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.

— Mia Maestro

I've felt like I had to fight for fully realized characters with complexities or even start writing or producing myself.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort…

— Chelsea Cain

I think at some level, it's just alchemy that we, as writers, can't explain when we write the characters. I don't set out to…

— Rachel Caine

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal

— Irwin Shaw

I admit I do develop characters from little parts of things I've seen others do.

— Jeff Bennett

As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when the characters…

— Lauren Groff

There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.

— David Walton

You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.

— Frank Vincent

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as…

— Janet McTeer

Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want.

— Joyce Meyer

My characters are like my children in a way. I create them, and then I worry about them forevermore.

— Elizabeth Berg