Ann Brashares Quotes

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.

I like to take a character and develop it.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

What I'm really trying to do is create unique characters.

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

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

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.

Stories are important, but I'm really into characters, and if you can give birth to a good one, that's true success.

I build my characters from the day they're born to the first page of the script.

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.

What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're probably not going to pay as much attention to a question like, 'Does this person bite their nails?'

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page - is if the character has damages, because then the writers can cultivate and excavate, like a dentist going into a tooth.

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

I'm about my characters.

I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.