Neil Jordan Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.

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.

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

I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.

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

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

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

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

I always try to write about believable people.

I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender.

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.

You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.

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

Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.

When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.

I don't tend to picture my characters as actors and actresses.

As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction.