Character Quote by Aziz Ansari

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

— Sune Rose Wagner

I like to write characters that feel like people that I would know.

— Anna Todd

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect…

— S. E. Hinton

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey…

— Conor Oberst

I write in character a lot.

— Mark Foster

Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.

— Taika Waititi

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own…

— Cassandra Clare

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

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

— Illeana Douglas

I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

— Emily Giffin

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

— Robert Holdstock