Community Quote by Jesmyn Ward

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

— MacKenzie Scott

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

— Julian Barnes

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people…

— Art Alexakis

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

— Tracey Ullman

I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.

— Sidney Sheldon

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my characters.

— Kartik Aaryan

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

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have…

— Meg Cabot

The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.

— Joaquin Phoenix

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own…

— Cassandra Clare

I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes…

— Liana Liberato

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

— Taika Waititi