Character Quote by Cassandra Clare

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have…

— Meg Cabot

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

— MacKenzie Scott

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only…

— Russell Hoban

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

— Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a story that…

— Robin Hobb

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

— Tracey Ullman

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

Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.

— Taika Waititi

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

— Julian Barnes

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

— Chris Brogan

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

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

— Alexander McCall Smith