Joan Miro Quotes

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

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

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

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

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

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.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

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.

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.

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.

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

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.

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

There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'

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

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

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.

I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like.

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.

To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.

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

I don't tend to cast roles in my head because I spend so much time with these characters and the drawings that they're complete in themselves, you know what I mean?

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.