Character Quote by Jennifer Weiner

All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it's all about character and personality.

— Bob Bergen

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you…

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is often very…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of…

— Victor LaValle

In a sense my whole life as a writer is trying to find structural ways, or formal ways, to permit that outflowing so it…

— George Saunders

I think everything you do, characters I always find, have their own voices and once you establish who that character is you find a…

— Guy Ritchie

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really…

— Todd Phillips

TV writing - for me, at least - is half original voice and half an embodiment and a representation of the spirit of the…

— Julie Plec

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

Being a screenwriter for a comedy, you're writing for characters in them in their voice. I could write anyone.

— Craig Mazin

In television, the creator is really the voice...

— Tony Goldwyn

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

— Nell Freudenberger