Character Quote by Quentin Tarantino

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to…

— Chris Terrio

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler

I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say…

— Andrew Greeley

I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.

— Quentin Tarantino

I find myself speaking through the other characters, putting ideas in their voices and heads. Writing almost becomes a splitting of myself into multiple…

— Danzy Senna

I'm a very visual thinker, so the characters are running through my head, doing what they're doing when I'm writing them. And there'll be…

— Paul Dini

Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the…

— Aimee Carter

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go…

— Julie Kagawa

I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person.

— Emily Giffin

Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.

— Willy Mason

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

— Edwidge Danticat

When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.

— Graham Swift