Based Quote by Dav Pilkey

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

— Tracey Ullman

I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist.

— Karin Slaughter

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

— MacKenzie Scott

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

— Julian Barnes

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

— Alan Dean Foster

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

— Nicholas Sparks

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect…

— S. E. Hinton

Sometimes I like to think that characters you play are all the other people you could've been in a lifetime.

— Mia Maestro

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

— Robert Englund

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

— Aziz Ansari

I did not know till now how irresolute a character was mine.

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the…

— Jack Nicholson