Air Quote by Peter Orner

I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with…

— Wendy Wasserstein

I take all my characters very seriously - the main, secondary, and supporting characters. Even if they only appear once, they still need to…

— Jaume Cabre

I think if characters change too much, it's unrealistic; their whole fabric of who they are as a person doesn't just disappear.

— Theodore Melfi

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

— Markus Zusak

I see this with experienced writers, too: They worry so much about the plot that they lose sight of the characters. They lose sight…

— Brian Michael Bendis

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters…

— Mohsin Hamid

When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and…

— Hallie Ephron

I care very much about all of my characters, recurring or not. I try to imagine something about that person beyond his or her…

— Jason Lutes

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in…

— Anonymous

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

While the cast of characters stays the same, I always try to add in new information so readers get to know the people they…

— Jane Cleland

They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people…

— Charlize Theron