Character Quote by Barbara Mertz

I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which I follow…

— Megan Chance

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. Sometimes the first…

— Nia Vardalos

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

— Ryan Fleck

Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether…

— Rose Tremain

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

— Dacia Maraini

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up…

— Norton Juster

So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.

— Peter Hedges

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

— Alan Furst

When I write, I try to become different characters.

— Billie Eilish

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

Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the…

— Aimee Carter

This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story,…

— Viggo Mortensen