About Quote by Kodi Smit-McPhee

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

— Charles de Lint

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

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

— Aziz Ansari

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know…

— Paul Auster

I like to have a much greater base and know a lot more about my character before I begin to fill the person. So…

— Sophia Bush

I like to write about stories and life experiences of me, the people around us, and just the things I see on the telly…

— Sam Fender

I know the relationships, and I already know my characters and how I'm going to reveal my characters to my readers - how I'm…

— Janet Evanovich

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

— Ethan Canin

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

— V. S. Naipaul

I like to write characters that feel like people that I would know.

— Anna Todd

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I…

— E. L. Konigsburg

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