Character Quote by Mary Kay Andrews

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

— S. E. Hinton

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

— Penelope Wilton

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

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

While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's…

— Nicholas Sparks

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped…

— Charles de Lint

I have many characters inspired from real life.

— Vivek Agnihotri

One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real…

— Joanne Harris

My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me, I talk…

— Judy Blume

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting.…

— Lauren Oliver

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

— Paul Auster

All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's…

— Paul Auster