Kaui Hart Hemmings Quotes

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.

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.

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

I enjoy the writing process and producing; I enjoy seeing an idea come to fruition. I'm driven by very complex characters. You look at the pilot of 'Breaking Bad,' where there's so much depth to the character, you can't help but be invested when you watch.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.

I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

Most of the time, when I'm writing, I'm writing for myself. I'm thinking, 'What will my character say at this time? What will come out of her mouth?' I create individuals so real to me, I sometimes start talking to them. Then I let them loose on the page.

Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking.

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down.

Variety of characters and themes bring out the best in me.

It always comes down to script and characters.

I love all the characters I write.

I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.

Often what happens with the writing is that you know where you want to start and you know where you want to end, but the journey is never quite what you predict because the characters take on a life on their own.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.

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

But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.

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

I found some time ago that I have to be careful, while working on a novel, what I read.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'