Character Quote by Anonymous

Before I ever begin writing a new story, I have to sketch my characters out on paper. It's part of my process of understanding…

— Marie Lu

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

It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are…

— George R. R. Martin

My process is pretty messy, and there's a lot of creative destruction in it. When I set out to write something, I'll write some…

— Jesse Andrews

As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did…

— Charles de Lint

I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with…

— Wendy Wasserstein

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

— Anita Desai

Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and…

— Anne Lamott

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot…

— Terry Pratchett

When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and…

— Hallie Ephron

I am constantly getting letters from inconsistancies in the back stories of these characters.

— Joe Murray