Character Quote by Chris Colfer

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

— Anonymous

I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and…

— Jonathan Evison

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

— S. E. Hinton

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that…

— Francine Rivers

To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

— Caroline Lawrence

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

— Lauryn Hill

I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

— Emily Giffin

You're living with these characters for years and years, you need to have a lock on who they are as people, what they like,…

— Aldis Hodge

As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity to me.

— Courtney A. Kemp

My characters are quite as real to me as so-called real people; which is one reason why I'm not subject to what is known…

— William S. Burroughs

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

— Paul Auster

There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if…

— Salma Hayek