Amazing Quote by Gena Showalter

When writing, I model all the heroes after myself. Of course, it's hard to make them quite as wonderful as I am, but I…

— Stan Lee

I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.

— N. K. Jemisin

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

Before I ever begin writing a new story, I have to sketch my characters out on paper. It's part of my process of understanding…

— Marie Lu

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

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

— Rachelle Lefevre

I love all the characters I write.

— Vijay Krishna Acharya

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I…

— E. L. Konigsburg

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and…

— Callie Khouri

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know…

— Paul Auster

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

— Robert Englund

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

— Jesse Eisenberg