Along Quote by Sarah MacLean

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

— Alexia Fast

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

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up…

— Norton Juster

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have…

— Meg Cabot

The reason I never wrote a novel is that I don't have what it takes to write characters, so they would all be talking…

— Wim Wenders

Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just…

— Anna Todd

Mainly, I try not to think about my readers as I write - I just think of my characters and myself - If they're…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people…

— Art Alexakis

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts…

— Sheila Heti

If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!

— Michael Scott