Always Quote by Stephen Graham

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

— Illeana Douglas

People relate to my characters and see me in a different way. They identify with me and remember the nuances of my characters.

— Kartik Aaryan

Sometimes you meet characters at certain points in your life and have a connection with them.

— Jessie Buckley

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use…

— Elizabeth Strout

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

I think sometimes I tap into other people. I sometimes write about other things that I see or just different situations.

— Susan Tedeschi

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

— Aziz Ansari

For me, it is important to pick up characters which I can relate to. Or I recall an incident in my life or tap…

— Barun Sobti

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

It's always nice when someone says that they don't realize it's me on screen, but it would be strange to enter a one story…

— Simon Helberg

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

— Sune Rose Wagner