Ability Quote by Juliet Marillier

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

— Chadwick Boseman

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know…

— Cassandra Clare

One thing about beginning writers is that they don't really always know their own strengths and weaknesses - you might think you're bad at…

— Jeff VanderMeer

There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.

— David Walton

I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff. The more material that you…

— Shailene Woodley

I think my characters are all fairly fundamentally decent, even if they have negative characteristics.

— Sally Rooney

It's always hard for a writer to make herself into a character; I had to figure out what my defining characteristics were, and that's…

— Jesmyn Ward

You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I'd like to think that what my style of writing is, is an attempt not so much to judge the characters that I'm writing…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born…

— Jim Rohn

In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having…

— Regina Doman

You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a…

— Gene Wolfe