Character Quote by Sarah Michelle Gellar

As with anything, you need to keep your creative juices flowing and keep the character interesting.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

— Judy Blume

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

— Aaron Stanford

I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.

— Garry Trudeau

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

— Terry McMillan

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 always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

— Jeffrey Combs

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my…

— Andy Serkis

The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.

— Christopher Reeve

If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all…

— Emma Thompson

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

— Robert Englund

I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes…

— Marlon James