Become Quote by George R. R. Martin

For me, it's important that I experience and feel what the characters are feeling. So I put myself in those moments, in their thoughts,…

— Chevy Stevens

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use…

— Elizabeth Strout

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

You always want to put your character through different experiences and see how it shapes their worldview.

— Mary Wiseman

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are…

— Little Simz

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being…

— Eudora Welty

I'm a very visual thinker, so the characters are running through my head, doing what they're doing when I'm writing them. And there'll be…

— Paul Dini

I focus on characters as individuals with attitudes and write each scene from a particular character's point of view. That way, even narrative passages…

— Elmore Leonard

I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character,…

— George R. R. Martin

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

— George R. R. Martin

Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with…

— S. E. Hinton