Aspect Quote by Caroline Lawrence

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

— Aaron Stanford

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

— S. E. Hinton

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

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people…

— Maeve Binchy

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not…

— Aubrey Plaza

You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got…

— Ricky Gervais

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

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.

— Genndy Tartakovsky

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

— Anonymous

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

— Christian McKay

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

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Audiences often ask if characters are based on real people. Indeed the impulse of the amateur is to write about who one knows. The…

— Anonymous