Wilbur Smith Quotes

There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring.

I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.

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've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.

Usually, when I write a novel, it takes me about 100 pages to figure out the voice of the narrator.

There's some of me in all my characters.

When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously, they're very personal to me, but it feels easier if I feel like I'm writing characters.

When you write a show, every character is you to some extent.

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

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

I've written short stories from male perspectives before, and I've never had a problem with it as long as I've understood the character's emotions and motivations.

You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.

When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.