Quotes about Writing Characters

In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium. Votes: 3

When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously they're very personal to me, but it feels easier if I feel like I'm writing characters. Votes: 3

A writer appears in everything that he does. That said, I felt like writing characters with my own name, in fact, provided me with something of a smoke screen. Votes: 3

I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission. Votes: 3

In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside. Votes: 3

The thing with videogame characters is that they tend to be really undercooked, and people don't take the time to really flesh them out. They don't treat them with the respect that a writer writing characters in any other medium would treat their character. Votes: 3

I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess. Votes: 2

I love funny women. I love writing funny women characters. Votes: 2

Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble. Votes: 2

When I'm writing a song, I try to be the character. Votes: 2

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype. Votes: 2

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories. Votes: 2

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character. Votes: 2

Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing. Votes: 2

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing. Votes: 2

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. Votes: 2

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself. Votes: 2

I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters. Votes: 2

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time! Votes: 2

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters. Votes: 2

Expressing political opinion can be a powerful way to establish a character's voice when writing fiction. Votes: 2

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. Votes: 2

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. Votes: 2

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them. Votes: 2

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters. Votes: 2

Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing. Votes: 2

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws. Votes: 0

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story. Votes: 0

There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV. Votes: 0

Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.... Votes: 0

Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things. Votes: 0

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story Votes: 0

Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things. Votes: 0

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters. Votes: 0

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history. Votes: 0

IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA. Votes: 0

When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading. Votes: 0

The characters that I have on Twitter have very little resemblance to me, the person who's writing them. Votes: 0

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey. Votes: 0

Television is what we're all very attracted to because that's where the best writing and the best characters are. Votes: 0

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. Votes: 0

I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear. Votes: 0

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book. Votes: 0

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it. Votes: 0

When I'm happiest writing is just not knowing where it goes and just let the characters bring you there. Votes: 0

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me. Votes: 0

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story. Votes: 0

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away. Votes: 0

I love writing from enclosed spaces: you really learn about your characters when they have tight walls to push against. Votes: 0

People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter. Votes: 0

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter. Votes: 0

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing. Votes: 0

[Townies] was a huge cast. It was a bit ungainly, I think with 12 regular characters they had to keep writing for. Votes: 0

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters. Votes: 0

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for. Votes: 0

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language. Votes: 0

Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood. Votes: 0

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters. Votes: 0

I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way. Votes: 0

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing. Votes: 0

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web. Votes: 0

Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012! Votes: 0

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction Votes: 0

I learned that comedy is born out of strong characters. I won't begin writing a character until I have a clear take on them. Votes: 0

I'm constantly being surprised and finding unplanned things - because the writing is a process of experiencing things on the ground with the characters. Votes: 0

I love great writing. I like interesting characters. I like to work with people who push me to be better, to elevate my game. Votes: 0

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If I'm doing my job right, then I'm not writing the dialogue; the characters are saying the dialogue, and I'm just jotting it down. Votes: 0

The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them. Votes: 0

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life. Votes: 0

Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up. Votes: 0

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other. Votes: 0

When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves. Votes: 0

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring. Votes: 0

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring Votes: 0

I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking and rule-following. Votes: 0

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got. Votes: 0

I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present. Votes: 0

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them. Votes: 0

I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know? Votes: 0

I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash,' 'Teen Titans' and 'JSA' for years. I always like diving into characters. Votes: 0

I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I`m outside, writing, I`m also inside, experiencing, and it can be very unsettling. Votes: 0

In the writing phase, normally I try not to envisage any particular actors because I like to let the characters sort of reveal themselves in that process. Votes: 0

Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds. Votes: 0

When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters. Votes: 0

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 about each of them. Votes: 0

I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead of worrying about paradigms. Votes: 0

I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero. Votes: 0

I like writing dialogue - I can hear my characters so clearly that writing dialogue often feels as much like transcribing something as it does like creating it. Votes: 0

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes. Votes: 0

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep. Votes: 0

Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen. Votes: 0

While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting. Votes: 0

When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters. Votes: 0

Designing the prints was very much like writing a story with characters, [inspired by] some of my my favorite icons of the time: Eva Perón and Josephine Baker. Votes: 0

There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are. Votes: 0

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song. Votes: 0

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters. Votes: 0

I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters. Votes: 0

Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters start to appear and narrative threads begin. Votes: 0