Character Quote by Emily Giffin Download Open image “I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.” — Emily Giffin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Creativity Life Character Real Real life Trying Writing
I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting.… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had. — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When I'm creating characters, I just want to create characters that I can relate to, and be as honest about them as people as… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the… — John Searles Copy Share Image
I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices. — Minka Kelly Copy Share Image
Building a relationship with the character. It's just like sitting with someone you know. It's very easy to predict when they're going to shake… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
You could imagine writing about a prostitute, for instance, but if you haven't spent time with prostitutes then you're going to get all these… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I think exercise is critical to my writing and an essential way to recharge. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Well, anyway… it’s over,” I say, realizing that those two words lump me right in with a hoard of naive women who say it’s… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life... — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“It occurs to me that she is not unique--that all women compare lives. We are aware of whose husband works more, who helps more… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“I desperately want to feel that way again. To be in a relationship that I’m not trying to script or water down. It’s about… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
