Character Quote by Armando Iannucci

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to…

— Chris Terrio

I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several…

— Louise Erdrich

As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try…

— Omari Hardwick

People probably have different philosophies about this, but I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the…

— Lynn Nottage

It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).

— Teddy Wayne

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

— Chris Pine

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually…

— Brian De Palma

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

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

— Nell Freudenberger

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

— James Ellroy

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

— Edwidge Danticat