Character Quote by Jeanette Winterson

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

— S. E. Hinton

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

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

— V. S. Naipaul

I quote fictional characters, because I'm a fictional character myself!

— Carrie Fisher

I wish I could say I had any idea what I was doing when I designed characters. I just take things I like and…

— Mike Mignola

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

— Danai Gurira

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a…

— Joaquin Phoenix

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 always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

— Danielle Trussoni

I have many characters inspired from real life.

— Vivek Agnihotri

I discovered that there was no difference between playing a real-life character and a fictional one.

— Parvathy

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