About Quote by Billy Crystal

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

— Rick Riordan

I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of four different…

— Warren Leight

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from…

— Paul Newman

The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the…

— Quentin Tarantino

I've always kind of gravitated toward characters who are a bit distant from the narrator or the point-of-view characters, so that's kind of important…

— Noelle Stevenson

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.

— David Mamet

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

— Nicholas Sparks

I just write the characters the way I see them. And maybe that's because I'm surrounded by the most amazing men,from my father to…

— Gena Showalter

I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person.

— Emily Giffin

I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado…

— Emily Blunt