Character Quote by James Doohan

You've got to understand what makes the character human.

— Marcia Gay Harden

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Taika Waititi

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know…

— Cassandra Clare

Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.

— Alain de Botton

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

— Chuck Jones

Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.

— Vanna Bonta

One nourishes one's created characters with one's own substance: it's rather like the process of gestation. To give the character life, or to give…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.

— William Zabka

I always try to humanize a character.

— Atul Kulkarni

They've turned this character into a human being.

— Melinda Clarke

To be human is to be in a story.

— Anonymous