Advice Quote by Laurell K. Hamilton

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel,…

— Sidney Sheldon

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters…

— Mohsin Hamid

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock…

— Joel Edgerton

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

— Dakota Fanning

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my characters.

— Kartik Aaryan

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have…

— Meg Cabot

To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.

— Wilbur Smith

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

— S. E. Hinton

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

— Robert Englund

When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and…

— Hallie Ephron

I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes…

— Liana Liberato

Sometimes my characters are not myself.

— Umberto Eco