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Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but…

— Ken Follett

The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

— Oscar Wilde

When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the…

— Bel Powley

It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.

— Pema Chodron

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all…

— Joss Whedon

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are…

— Nina Bawden

“Writers are like actors too. For every story we create, we must get under the skin of the characters and role play with our…

— Jyoti Arora

“take details from “real life” into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do the unbelievable…

— Dorothy Allison

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from…

— Anonymous

We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story…

— Aaron Ehasz

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that…

— Francine Rivers