Andre Maurois Quotes

Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.

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

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

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

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

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

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.

There is no creative process to come up with a character of Dean Ambrose.

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

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.

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?'

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

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

For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life.

In 'Tintin,' it's like a live-action role. You're living and breathing and making decisions for that character from page 1 to page 120, the whole emotional arc. In an animated movie, it's a committee decision. There are 50 people creating that character. You're responsible for a small part.

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.

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

There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.

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.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

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

I like to take a character and develop it.

I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.