Beauty Quote by Joshua Jackson

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

— Francine Rivers

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters…

— Alice Hoffman

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that…

— Francine Rivers

I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.

— Quentin Tarantino

...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to…

— Bruce Springsteen

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes…

— Alan Moore

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

— John Darnielle

Why spend a lifetime reading love stories when you can be a actual character in your own

— M Walder

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

— Jodi Picoult

When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this cyclical nightmare…

— Ben Feldman

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters…

— Paul Kane

My personal life is a big part of who my character is.

— Sonya Deville