Character Quote by Edwidge Danticat

You've got to internalize the character. You've got to learn the words. These are separate things, but they work together.

— Robert Forster

If you're writing on your own, each character is just you. It's just you.

— Gabourey Sidibe

The fun for me is knowing what the other person is saying and what my character would be thinking at that time. On the…

— Barry Nelson

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with…

— Alex Garland

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

— Armando Iannucci

The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the…

— Quentin Tarantino

When you're a writer, there is a selflessness that has to happen; you have to have equity with how you treat each of the…

— Natasha Rothwell

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

— Will Hobbs

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

— Julianna Baggott

That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you telling them.

— Mike Bartlett

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

— Sune Rose Wagner

I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.

— Quentin Tarantino