Me Quote by Paul Dini

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

— Wilbur Smith

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

— Dakota Fanning

I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.

— Kathryn Lasky

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 like playing these characters who are just on the edge of ridiculous but always grounded in reality. I would never want to come…

— Kaitlin Olson

A lot of writers do think of their characters as living beings. I know that's the way people think. That's why I try to…

— Dennis Cooper

I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and…

— Jonathan Evison

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to…

— Margaret Mahy

When I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters.…

— Stephenie Meyer

I'm very interested in people, so if a character happens to be real, there's that much more to look at.

— Toby Jones

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 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