Female character Quote by Katy O'Brian

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached…

— Angel Olsen

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting.…

— Lauren Oliver

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's…

— Kevin Smith

All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them. And that…

— Naomi Novik

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

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I used to say I wasn't interested in writing about characters.

— Emma Healey

For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for…

— Sarah MacLean

I feel like there are things I can relate to in every character. But I feel like when you read a script, you don't…

— Martin Starr

Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just…

— Eli Roth