Character Quote by Hari Kunzru

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

When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this cyclical nightmare…

— Ben Feldman

Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding of the…

— Olivia Wilde

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 think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do…

— Natalie Portman

I often feel like that with the way I portray myself I come off as looking much worse than any of the other characters.…

— Marie Calloway

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh

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

— Dacia Maraini

When I become a character in a movie or drama... I can think about the character only and not the complicated matters of my…

— Gong Yoo

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious…

— Todd Solondz

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 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