Access Quote by Ayana Mathis

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

— Alan Furst

Writing is really freeing because it's the only part of the process where it's just you and the characters and you are by yourself…

— Dee Rees

Usually, people write the characters into a box, and that's just not true to life.

— Thomas Ian Nicholas

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

— Alison Tyler

But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they…

— Beth Henley

A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

— D. B. Weiss

You have to follow the logic of your characters while you're writing.

— Ryan Fleck

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.

— David Benioff

I can't write unless I've got the voice for a character.

— Noel Fielding

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

— Aziz Ansari

You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.

— Jamie Hewlett