Character Quote by Michael Ian Black

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

— Francoise Sagan

I try to find some similarities between myself and the characters, even if it's the tiniest thing.

— Lizzy Caplan

I don't try to find similarities with my characters because then it becomes difficult to act.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

My characters in each of my films bear no resemblance to each other.

— Vijay Antony

I post on Twitter regularly, and when I checked my followers, I saw that my own characters were following me. They sounded eerily like…

— Neal Shusterman

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

— MacKenzie Scott

I think it's always difficult no matter how similar your characters are to yourself to get into that mindset, because however much they are…

— Asa Butterfield

Ultimately, physical resemblance isn't as important as whether this person can bring this character to life in a way that's compelling and makes me…

— Alan Ball

I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring…

— Lisa Unger

In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes,…

— James Dashner

It's such a deliberate thing to sit down and write a tweet. You're putting yourself out there in a very deliberate way, and over…

— Michael Ian Black

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

— Julian Barnes