Aspect Quote by Martin Scorsese

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Most of my writing is an effort, one way or another, to figure something out about myself, and often when I read dialogue between…

— Ron Currie Jr

I think I find a commonality between characters and the different sides of myself.

— Bae Suzy

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people…

— Art Alexakis

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

— Aziz Ansari

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

— Charles de Lint

I think it's very important for me to work on myself while I'm working on a character, and also it's important how I'm giving…

— Judith Light

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

— Alexia Fast

The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you write about…

— Tino Sehgal

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own…

— Cassandra Clare

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect…

— S. E. Hinton

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it…

— Charlie Kaufman