Mrunal Thakur Quotes

Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

I came into this business to create characters that moved people and told stories.

To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.

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

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.

People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.

I spend a lot of time with my characters.

I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

I'm still really fascinated with characters and people and telling their stories.

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them or telling them.

I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.

Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they'll be ones that other people want to read about, too.

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

One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

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

When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.

When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words.

I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.

We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story lead you to discovering who the character is in a natural way.

I don't have a clear biography of my own that I could recount in an interesting way. I'm made up of the characters that I pulled out of my head, that I invented.

I love all the characters I write.