Fit Quote by Nicholas Sparks

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

— Robert Englund

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

— Taika Waititi

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

— Tracey Ullman

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have…

— Meg Cabot

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

— MacKenzie Scott

I've always kind of gravitated toward characters who are a bit distant from the narrator or the point-of-view characters, so that's kind of important…

— Noelle Stevenson

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

I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.

— Dav Pilkey

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and…

— Amanda Burton

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

— Miranda July

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people…

— Maeve Binchy

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