Brent Weeks Quotes

I don't really base any of my characters on specific people that I know, although my characters are informed by the kind of people who live in my community.

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

A lot of my characters are born out of a small grain in a person that I heighten and take to that next level. They're not based on anyone I've ever met, but they are these extreme versions of something.

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 characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.

My characters are all made up of pieces of people I have known, their backstories pieces of mine.

I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

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 think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.

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

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.

I've never purposefully based a character on any one person I know, but I'm certain there are amalgamations that exist.

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

My characters are usually composites. I wish I could pretend that I make up all of these characters, but no. I steal from people. But people will say to me, "Oh, that's me!" and I'm thinking, no, that's not you!

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

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

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

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.