Character Quote by Willy Mason

It is more important to just be as honest as I can about my characters than to write some really great sentence.

— Molly Antopol

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

— Sune Rose Wagner

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

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

— Matthew Nable

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

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

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

Of course, building a character is easy when the writing is good.

— Helene Yorke

I find myself speaking through the other characters, putting ideas in their voices and heads. Writing almost becomes a splitting of myself into multiple…

— Danzy Senna

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

— Jackie Collins

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

— Aziz Ansari