Annoying Quote by Julia Davis

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in…

— Anonymous

I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away and I'll show you.

— Richelle Mead

I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the…

— Tayari Jones

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

— Saoirse Ronan

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

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

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

— Miranda July

I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.'

— Lorrie Moore

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

— Kimberly Willis Holt

Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.

— Terry Goodkind

I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person.

— Emily Giffin

Sometimes I'll be fifty, sixty pages into something and I'll still be calling a character "X." I don't have a very clear idea of…

— Joan Didion