About Quote by George R. R. Martin

Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about…

— Anonymous

My process is pretty messy, and there's a lot of creative destruction in it. When I set out to write something, I'll write some…

— Jesse Andrews

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to…

— Chris Terrio

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not…

— Akira Kurosawa

It's just wonderful to be able to write about what my characters are thinking.

— Ruth Jones

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

The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they…

— Rachel Joyce

The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night…

— Ann Patchett

You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.

— Todd Lieberman

A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted…

— Martin Donovan

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they…

— Isak Dinesen

I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.

— Caroline Leavitt