Character Quote by Gustave Flaubert

I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in this fantasy…

— Jenny Lewis

I feel very drawn to characters who hide themselves and take great pains to disguise themselves from the world.

— Cord Jefferson

I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a…

— Fernando Pessoa

I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the people around…

— Danny Pudi

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 enjoy being in my character's world.

— Sanya Malhotra

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 sometimes feel that I am trying to dig in the world around me. I'm involved in another kind of archaeology to look for…

— Simon McBurney

The last few years I've had to force myself to go out and be more involved the world because I can get a bit…

— Jason Gann

I sort of have the belief that you work being your character out while you're working on it, or that's been my experience so…

— Jonathan Groff

The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and…

— Haruki Murakami

I always tend to think just left of center, to remove myself from the world by one step. It is very freeing, and it's…

— Joss Whedon