Art Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer

Inventing characters is extraordinary: proper authors say so often that characters 'just appear' and that does happen. These people keep leaping out and saying,…

— Sheila Hancock

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

— Elizabeth Berg

I honestly go back and forth in my head about using advanced and innovative technologies for creating my characters. There's something more 'real' and…

— Jeff Dunham

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

— Jeanette Winterson

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for…

— Jim Rohn

I didn't invent anything; it's all there in the culture; it's not a big mystery. I just combine my personal experience with classic cartoon…

— Robert Crumb

I'm not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn't be able to do…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Whenever you have a role where you don't get to know anything about the character, you have to invent it yourself. You have to…

— Cameron Britton

Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.

— Taika Waititi

It's always quintessential to create complexities in characters.

— Myha'la