Anguish Quote by Chang-Rae Lee

Like most people, I'm fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.

— Chang-Rae Lee

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then…

— Rachel Weisz

I'm drawn to playing characters who are terribly flawed and have no idea about it.

— Catherine O'Hara

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers…

— Ally Carter

I think those are the kind of characters I like to play, people who are flawed and human because we all are.

— Simone Missick

I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their…

— Emily Giffin

You can never judge your characters. You have to love them, really care about them. You're never just playing a villain or the crazy…

— Annabella Sciorra

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in…

— Aidan Gillen

But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world…

— Jennifer Egan

When you don't have a main character that's flawed, I don't know how you relate to that person.

— Sam Esmail

We aren't always comfortable witnessing real frailty or vulnerability in our heroines, but I like characters who struggle, and doubt, and who don't always…

— Leigh Bardugo

You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional…

— Rachael Leigh Cook