Any Quote by Dan DeCarlo

Josie needed more of a personality than what the cartoon had to offer.

— Rachael Leigh Cook

Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.

— Bob Mayer

I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of their personality.

— Diana Gabaldon

The way I saw the characters these things just happened naturally. At the same time - and I know it's probably not apparent when…

— Donald Ray Pollock

All the way through the book I altered details about every one of the characters.

— James Frey

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

— Markus Zusak

Just in terms of when I got the script, the character I probably liked the least was Big Foster. Because even though he was…

— David Morse

I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way.…

— Kurt Sutter

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think…

— Carl Hiaasen

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

— Ruth Ozeki