Cassandra Clare Quotes

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

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

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

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

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

I don't know quite how a story develops in my head. It is a bit chaotic. If I am working on a series, one of the main characters at least is already in existence as well as some setting and minor characters. Finding the other main character can be a challenge. Sometimes this character already exists in a minor role in another book.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

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.

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

You've got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what they're like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life.

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.

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

I like to take a character and develop it.

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

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.

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.

You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.

There is no creative process to come up with a character of Dean Ambrose.

It's always fun to layer a character, to make the character a little bit more dynamic than it is on paper.

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