Character Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets…

— Caroline B. Cooney

Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.

— Anonymous

One of the things that makes characters real is details. Life offers a lot of details. You just have to choose and use them…

— Nick Earls

“We all fictionalize ourselves in the process of creating a story out of the raw materials of our life. For some it is a…

— Neil McCormick

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I…

— Isabel Allende

I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of…

— Rohinton Mistry

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

— S. E. Hinton

We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story…

— Aaron Ehasz

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

— Danai Gurira

When I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters.…

— Stephenie Meyer

Any narrative, whether it's fiction or not, you have to approach it as though it really happened to you. I think that's the only…

— Jason Isbell