Able Quote by William T. Vollmann

I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

— Emily Giffin

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

Some people say, 'Well you're a man; how do you write about women or girls when you don't know about them?' Well, I've got…

— Makoto Shinkai

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know…

— Cassandra Clare

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

— Sune Rose Wagner

I love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your characters, and…

— Jane Smiley

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— Aziz Ansari

Inventing characters is extraordinary: proper authors say so often that characters 'just appear' and that does happen. These people keep leaping out and saying,…

— Sheila Hancock

Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you,…

— Barbara Abercrombie

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with…

— Alex Garland

It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer…

— Anne Tyler