Able Quote by Sophia Bush

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out…

— Katie Cassidy

That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence over everything…

— Daniel Clowes

Building a relationship with the character. It's just like sitting with someone you know. It's very easy to predict when they're going to shake…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect…

— S. E. Hinton

We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story…

— Aaron Ehasz

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I…

— E. L. Konigsburg

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know…

— Paul Auster

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

— Aziz Ansari

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

— Nicholas Sparks

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people…

— Maeve Binchy

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go…

— Julie Kagawa

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that…

— Francine Rivers