Always Quote by Greta Gerwig

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

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached…

— Angel Olsen

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

— Alison Tyler

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts…

— Sheila Heti

In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.

— Elizabeth Berg

I have an affinity for writing in the first person. I love the intimacy of being dropped inside the character.

— Sue Monk Kidd

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in…

— Anonymous

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my…

— Isabel Allende

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

— Mike White

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'm used to playing characters that are so different to me and I love that; it's my safety blanket and I hide behind the…

— Sacha Dhawan

“The characters who go to make up my stories and novels are not portraits. Characters I invent along with the story that carries them.…

— Eudora Welty