Marlon James Quotes

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

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.

I don't ever really know where I get my characters from.

I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

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

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.

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

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

I like to take a character and develop it.

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

You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.

Characters are an extension of your imagination.

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

I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them.

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

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

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

I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

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

I like to make definite choices and give my characters as many unique edges as possible.

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