Character Quote by Brian Henson

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

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know…

— Cassandra Clare

Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is often very…

— Joyce Carol Oates

In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality, a real…

— Flannery O'Connor

Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment, into who…

— Jim Rohn

A lot of writers will take a character at the beginning of a story. And that character will stay the same all the way…

— Adrian Lester

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Character is something each one of us must build for himself, out of the laws of God and nature, the examples of others, and…

— Arthur Trudeau

Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.

— Anil Sinha

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again,…

— Joel Coen

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as…

— Janet McTeer

Character isn't what we think it is or, rather, what we want it to be. It isn't a stable, easily identifiable set of closely…

— Malcolm Gladwell