Characters Quote by Taika Waititi

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

— George R. R. Martin

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I always find…

— Greta Gerwig

I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.

— Marti Noxon

I like characters that are fragile and a little bit on the edge .

— Zach Galifianakis

I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.

— Donald Ray Pollock

I used to say I wasn't interested in writing about characters.

— Emma Healey

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 choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.

— Charlie Kaufman

I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached…

— Angel Olsen

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just…

— Anna Todd