Character Quote by Billy Lawrence

I like naming characters.

— Roddy Doyle

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the…

— Tayari Jones

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

— Paul Auster

I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

— Karin Slaughter

Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character's name be my name.

— Mindy Kaling

The really good thing about my career is that I never went through a phase where I played characters who had names like "Partygoer,"…

— Rob Lowe

I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.

— Spike Lee

I'm good at - or, rather, I like - giving names to characters.

— Akira Toriyama

Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.

— Daryl Hannah

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a…

— J. K. Rowling

I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.

— Susan Choi

I wasn't aware I was trading on my good name; I've never had a good name.

— Hugh Grant