Character Quote by Spike Lee

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a…

— J. K. Rowling

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 like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I start feeling like the characters and the…

— Tayari Jones

I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

— Felicity Jones

I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.

— Sam Underwood

I'm good at - or, rather, I like - giving names to characters.

— Akira Toriyama

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

— Charles de Lint

It's important to me that I need to know what my character is about.

— Sameera Reddy

I don't really try to judge any character that I play, afterwards I figure it out, but while I'm working on the character, I…

— John Hawkes

Before I ever begin writing a new story, I have to sketch my characters out on paper. It's part of my process of understanding…

— Marie Lu

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

I think you can tell a great deal from a name. For me, there are certain names that I hear, and I think, 'Urgh.'…

— Katie Hopkins