Between Quote by Francoise Sagan

I don't try to find similarities with my characters because then it becomes difficult to act.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

I try to find some similarities between myself and the characters, even if it's the tiniest thing.

— Lizzy Caplan

The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them.

— Michael Ian Black

My characters in each of my films bear no resemblance to each other.

— Vijay Antony

Hardly anyone about whom I deeply care at all resembles anyone else I have ever met, or heard of, or read about in literature.

— Renata Adler

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

— MacKenzie Scott

I think it's always difficult no matter how similar your characters are to yourself to get into that mindset, because however much they are…

— Asa Butterfield

I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from…

— Anonymous

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

— Alan Dean Foster

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

— Julian Barnes

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people…

— Edwidge Danticat

You've got the people you know, which are problematic. Always. They're rich but they're also real people living their lives alongside you. Then you've…

— Miranda July