Character Quote by Cate Blanchett

When I find the character, I try to spend time with them and get to know them very well. Therefore my notes are not…

— Abbas Kiarostami

A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.

— George R. R. Martin

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something…

— Camille Pissarro

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting.…

— Lauren Oliver

The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. I have their outline in my head. I become the character and as…

— Hayao Miyazaki

Writing for me is quite a plastic form, a kind of mental sculpture, although that sounds weird. It acquires its character and its depth…

— Kate Atkinson

My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that.

— Augusten Burroughs

...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

— Jasper Fforde

I'm a very visual thinker, so the characters are running through my head, doing what they're doing when I'm writing them. And there'll be…

— Paul Dini

Mostly, drawings are things I make for myself - I do them in sketchbooks. They are mental experiments - private inner thoughts when I'm…

— Sigmar Polke

I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot…

— Tom Clancy

I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness…

— Daniel Clowes