Character Quote by Karen Walker

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

— Marilyn Manson

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being…

— Eudora Welty

If I write a character, instead of looking from the outside, like maybe a journalist would, trying to describe them physically and figuring out…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

— Aziz Ansari

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts…

— Sheila Heti

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

— Evelyn Waugh

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

— Charles de Lint

When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes…

— George R. R. Martin

I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I`m outside, writing, I`m also inside, experiencing, and it can be very…

— Stephen King

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

— Sune Rose Wagner

I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character,…

— George R. R. Martin