Character Quote by Simon Helberg

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

I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot…

— Tom Clancy

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

When I'm inside the character, I feel like I'm a different person, and then when you see that character on screen and I see…

— Gillian Anderson

Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew…

— Ron Rash

Taking on different characters and seeing things through the eyes of different people is interesting to me. When I look at what people are…

— Little Simz

I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person.

— Emily Giffin

Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions. In that…

— Anton Corbijn

I'm quite good at switching off and sometimes I forget who I am in a character.

— Luke Evans

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

— Illeana Douglas

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler

Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know…

— Cassandra Clare