About Quote by Sheila Hancock

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

— Miranda July

I write to be the characters that I am not.

— Joss Whedon

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

— Alison Tyler

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“My problem as a writer is that—whenever I meet someone for the first time—I immediately invent for them a personality and background that are…

— James Rozoff

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

Characters more or less present themselves to me. I don't know their origins. I think if I did, if I seemed to myself to…

— Marilynne Robinson

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

— V. S. Naipaul

Sometimes my characters are not myself.

— Umberto Eco

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know…

— Cassandra Clare

I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had.

— Aziz Ansari