Victoria Aveyard Quotes

With an interesting character, there's always something to say.

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

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.

When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

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

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

It's very hard to connect with a character when you haven't gotten a sense of who they are.

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

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?'

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work, from a certain point in time they come alive and start contradicting the author as well.

The most fascinating powers don't mean a thing if the guy's poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won't hurt a well-motivated character. Personality and motivation are what make Magneto, Magneto and not Cosmic Boy. The powers work for him, but it's his motivation that makes him the character he is.

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.

I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.