Amount Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

— Taika Waititi

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

— MacKenzie Scott

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

— Julian Barnes

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

— Tracey Ullman

People know me through my characters. I don't think they have any idea about the individual that I am. They know I am a…

— Fahadh Faasil

It can be annoying not to know who you are, where you came from, or what you're doing. To try to create a character…

— Dallas Roberts

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

— Nicholas Sparks

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

You have to make a character of yourself if you're going to be known to strangers.

— Ezra Furman

I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring…

— Lisa Unger

Every person has contributed to me as a human, but a lot of the characters I do are ones I created.

— Tracy Morgan