Believe Quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being…

— Ayana Mathis

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know…

— Cassandra Clare

Characters are an extension of your imagination.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

— Ruth Ozeki

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

— Lynn Nottage

To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.

— Wilbur Smith

I personally never felt like I connected to a lot of characters, especially female characters, that were written the way they were written; these…

— Katy O'Brian

I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the…

— Ann Brashares

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

— Dacia Maraini

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters…

— Rick Moody

To tell you the truth, I don't ever talk about characters as separate from myself.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect…

— S. E. Hinton