Character Quote by Karin Slaughter

I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.

— Dav Pilkey

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

— Tracey Ullman

Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.

— Taika Waititi

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

— MacKenzie Scott

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect…

— S. E. Hinton

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

— Nicholas Sparks

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

— Alan Dean Foster

Some of my characters are drawn from people I know whereas others are an amalgamation of people or one specific person. Sometimes a character…

— Zoya Akhtar

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

— Julian Barnes

The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.

— Forest Whitaker

It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons…

— Brenda Blethyn