And love Quote by Dorothy Allison

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

— Alan Furst

I think even the characters that are fundamentally evil and wrong, I want people to really love them. I think that's important to writing…

— Mark Russell

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have…

— Meg Cabot

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

— Paul Haggis

That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a…

— R. A. Salvatore

I write to be the characters that I am not.

— Joss Whedon

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

— Jodi Picoult

It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence.

— Molly Antopol

You have to be careful. You have to be able to stand behind what you write and believe in it.

— Jesse Armstrong

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

— Mike White

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante