Character Quote by Ron Rash

Often, if I read a story and I'm moved, I have an understanding for a character and I don't really know why.

— Mia Wasikowska

Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do

— Chris Hemsworth

It's always nice when someone says that they don't realize it's me on screen, but it would be strange to enter a one story…

— Simon Helberg

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

There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them in situations…

— Greta Gerwig

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

— Charles de Lint

You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.

— Dana Spiotta

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to…

— Ellen Schreiber

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

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

— Tom Wolfe

There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know…

— Stephen Graham

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