Able Quote by Daniel Mason

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

— Penelope Wilton

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people…

— Art Alexakis

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are…

— Little Simz

All my characters are different from one another, and it's like I am living so many different lives simultaneously.

— Mrunal Thakur

I enjoy entering the viewpoint of characters who are as different from myself as I can get - children, elderly women, animals, a sexy…

— Scott Bradfield

I try not to push characters too close to myself because they get harder to write, but as a writer, you try to find…

— Tom King

Storytelling is always evolving, but if you allow people with new voices and perspectives to come in, you open audiences up to different walks…

— Jay Ellis

I care very much about all of my characters, recurring or not. I try to imagine something about that person beyond his or her…

— Jason Lutes

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

Our life evokes our character and you find out more about yourself as you go on.

— Joseph Campbell

You always want to put your character through different experiences and see how it shapes their worldview.

— Mary Wiseman

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

— Brian Boyd