Factual Quote by Norman Lock

I just have to focus on staying truthful to my characters and depict their reality as authentically as I can.

— Arjun Mathur

There is your persona and then there's the real you. I was living inside my persona too much.

— Phil Hellmuth

“We all fictionalize ourselves in the process of creating a story out of the raw materials of our life. For some it is a…

— Neil McCormick

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

— Danai Gurira

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

— S. E. Hinton

I'm not a persona, and I'm not a character. I'm always the same person.

— Willam Belli

We all have one authentic and one fictional self, some of us are daring enough to claim and get their way out while others…

— Senoraroy

I'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself.

— Lana Del Rey

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey…

— Conor Oberst

There are elements of myself in every character I do, just because you take from your real life experiences and sprinkle those into your…

— Edge

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

— Wilbur Smith

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them…

— Allan Massie