Character Quote by Marie Calloway

When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this cyclical nightmare…

— Ben Feldman

Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all the time.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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

It used to bother me being portrayed as this bitchy person, but now I feel that the public understands me better than some writer.…

— Jennifer Lopez

When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's almost hard…

— Emily Giffin

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

Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in…

— Sean Bean

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner

Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became…

— Bruce Davison

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

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

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises…

— Daniel Handler