Articles Quote by Jim Henson

Fictional characters exist in only two places, neither of which is on the printed page. They exist, first, in the mind of the writer…

— Maren Elwood

Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your…

— Patrick Rothfuss

There's me in every character I put on the pages.

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

— Taika Waititi

All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.

— Robert Holdstock

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

— Ruth Ozeki

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Every writer knows a lot more about their characters and story than actually makes it onto the page.

— Robin Hobb

I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.

— George R. R. Martin

The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand…

— Jaume Cabre

Multiple characters make it more difficult to showcase each character.

— David Finch

I've done 70 different characters on my podcast. But in terms of characters that I revisit a lot, I think there are 10 that…

— Lauren Lapkus