Character Quote by Charles de Lint

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know…

— Paul Auster

I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.

— Gerard Butler

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

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

— Aziz Ansari

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

— Dacia Maraini

Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding of the…

— Olivia Wilde

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

— Chris Cleave

Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.

— Julie Kagawa

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

I write in character a lot.

— Mark Foster