Angry Quote by Lisa Kleypas

You don't necessarily get the background of a character every time, So, you have to create it mentally and write about it. This is…

— Sanya Malhotra

I never liked the whole idea of [creating your own] background, if it's not pertinent, where the character lived as a child, and who…

— Maria Bello

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

— Dexter Fletcher

I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in…

— Regina King

When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific images—things that have come into…

— China Mieville

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my…

— Siegfried Lenz

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for…

— Sibel Kekilli

You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of…

— Cassandra Clare

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

“It perplexes me how many people write books where everyone comes from the same basic set of backgrounds—middle class, white, straight, etc. It's like…

— Scott Westerfeld

I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I'm a very visual thinker, so the characters are running through my head, doing what they're doing when I'm writing them. And there'll be…

— Paul Dini