Character Quote by Eric Holmes

All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position of the…

— Michael Chabon

No matter what world you're creating, whether it be a real world or a fantasy world, you still have to make the characters relatable…

— David Nutter

I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is…

— Darren Boyd

In the field of fantastic fiction, the question of world-building is not uncontroversial. But I grew up with 'Dungeons and Dragons,' so that whole…

— China Mieville

I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.

— Ann Brashares

It is a challenge to write in the real world once you've had the advantage of being able to create your own world.

— Leigh Bardugo

What's fascinating to me is the way that multiple stories go into creating any world - a fictional world, but certainly the world that…

— Ruth Ozeki

Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard

— Warren Spector

It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.

— Daniel Clowes

Nothing can compare to creating characters and worlds out of thin air with your friends and making a book exactly the way you think…

— Rick Remender

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't…

— Peter Carey

From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that's fantastic for me.

— Stephen Chow