Learn Quote by Anna Boden

We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story…

— Aaron Ehasz

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I…

— E. L. Konigsburg

Whenever we've approached a story, it's always started with the character, and the idea of some character struggling with some part of himself. That's…

— Anna Boden

The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand…

— Jaume Cabre

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler

You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.

— Todd Lieberman

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

— Rachelle Lefevre

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and…

— Callie Khouri

There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them in situations…

— Greta Gerwig

If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and…

— Felicia Day

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out…

— Katie Cassidy

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

— Anita Desai