Behinds Quote by Sara Sheridan

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 think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you.

— Sean Bean

The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet.

— Gail Godwin

My characters are usually composites. I wish I could pretend that I make up all of these characters, but no. I steal from people.…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.

— Ashley Tisdale

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work…

— Aubrey Plaza

That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.

— Taika Waititi

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Sometimes my characters are not myself.

— Umberto Eco

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.

— Luke Mably

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

— Illeana Douglas

I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of…

— Alexandra Sokoloff