Advice Quote by Jackie Collins

Creating a character is about what they look like. The look speaks volume to the audience.

— Ashley Madekwe

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character…

— Grimes

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources…

— Asa Butterfield

Of course, building a character is easy when the writing is good.

— Helene Yorke

If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then the characters…

— Terry Pratchett

When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's almost hard…

— Emily Giffin

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

— Jessica Alba

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

— Jeffery Deaver

Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your…

— Patrick Rothfuss

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation

— Harvey Keitel

It's tough, when you play an iconic character, to break away from it. You have to make sure you have a lot of variety…

— Billie Lourd

I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes…

— Marlon James