Character Quote by Olivia Wilde

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

— Charles de Lint

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel,…

— Sidney Sheldon

When you're a writer, if you're very lucky, you create these characters that you fall in love with, and you feel like they're guiding…

— Janet Varney

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I…

— E. L. Konigsburg

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts…

— Sheila Heti

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

— Robert Englund

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

— Aziz Ansari

I've always read, I've always admired writers and was lucky really to meet some extraordinary ones and become friends. Certain times you just like…

— David Salle

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh

Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're…

— Jacqueline Woodson

There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well spent. And…

— James D. Houston

“Ron Carlson says, 'The most undervalued craft device that fiction writers need is empathy. You need to be able to actually imagine what your…

— Barbara DeMarco-Barrett