Believable Quote by Mark Haddon

Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.

— Taika Waititi

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and…

— Callie Khouri

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

— Lynn Nottage

Some of my characters are drawn from people I know whereas others are an amalgamation of people or one specific person. Sometimes a character…

— Zoya Akhtar

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know…

— Cassandra Clare

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

— Julian Barnes

I try to be really, really specific, because each character is really an individual and you have to find out what makes them unique.

— Rachelle Lefevre

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

— MacKenzie Scott

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

— Wilbur Smith

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

— Nicholas Sparks

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

— Marva Collins