Box Quote by Thomas Ian Nicholas

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

— Alan Furst

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

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.

— Ayana Mathis

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

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your…

— Edward James Olmos

A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

— D. B. Weiss

Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.

— Willy Mason

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

— Ruth Ozeki

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters…

— Paul Kane

You have to follow the logic of your characters while you're writing.

— Ryan Fleck

Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin,…

— Eudora Welty