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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

I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified.

— Peter Morgan

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

— Paul Haggis

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

— Melissa de la Cruz

“I love being able to create characters, give them problems, and make sure everything turns out right in the end. Writing gives me limitless…

— Jennie Adams

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to…

— Stephen Coonts

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel,…

— Sidney Sheldon

Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort…

— Chelsea Cain

One of the ways my first novel failed was that I was too in love with my characters.

— Jesmyn Ward

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

— Mike White