Believable Quote by Ayana Mathis

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any…

— Lou Reed

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being…

— Eudora Welty

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting.…

— Lauren Oliver

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them…

— Philipp Meyer

I just have to focus on staying truthful to my characters and depict their reality as authentically as I can.

— Arjun Mathur

I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.

— Minka Kelly

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

— Lynn Nottage

I don't write a whole lot about one person that exists in reality; it's usually characteristics of different people that I combine into a…

— Jason Isbell

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

— Sune Rose Wagner

In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else.

— Steve Erickson

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

— Jackie Collins