Bolt Quote by John Sandford

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.

— Zig Ziglar

The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every…

— Donald Pleasence

You meet people and you hear the way they talk and the way they behave, and that subconsciously gets fed into the characters you…

— Steven Knight

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've…

— Neil Jordan

Characters are born from necessity.

— Christopher Paolini

What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're probably not going to pay as much attention to…

— Gina Rodriguez

I like when somebody is able to create their own universe, have a consistency to it and not break from character - that's something…

— Russell Mael

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

— Megan Mullally

No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Characters are an extension of your imagination.

— Sobhita Dhulipala

Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.

— Alain de Botton