Sara Zarr Quotes

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

I always try to write about believable people.

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.

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

I want to give my characters nuance.

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.

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.

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?'

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.

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.

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.

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

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

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

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

Stories are important, but I'm really into characters, and if you can give birth to a good one, that's true success.

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.