Character Quote by Harold Pinter

For me, it's quite scary to go ahead to make my characters say things because, at times, you might actually be influencing a mind…

— Ekta Kapoor

Sometimes I think too much, or sometimes I don't think enough as the character. Sometimes you just miss a moment, or sometimes you hear…

— Taissa Farmiga

I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I…

— Greg Kinnear

I generally don't like to talk too much about the character unless I feel stuck or in some trouble.

— Katherine Waterston

My best writing has to do with an internal process that I'm working out unconsciously and put into my characters.

— Lyle Kessler

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

Of course it's a lot easier for me if I think of myself as a character to say certain things; it gives me a…

— Moyra Davey

Even when I'm writing in character I'm normally still writing about things I know or things that have happened to me or using that…

— Karen Walker

Most of the time, when I'm writing, I'm writing for myself. I'm thinking, 'What will my character say at this time? What will come…

— Katori Hall

It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it or not.…

— Mary J. Miller

Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to it until…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

— Charles de Lint