Characters Quote by Rachel Joyce

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

— Charles de Lint

I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations…

— Lynn Nottage

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

— Manuel Puig

My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me, I talk…

— Judy Blume

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers…

— Ally Carter

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know…

— Paul Auster

As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did…

— Charles de Lint

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted…

— Martin Donovan

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

— Dakota Fanning

I like to write characters that feel like people that I would know.

— Anna Todd

It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're not there, and the next day they are…

— George R. R. Martin