Jorge Amado Quotes

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.

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

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 really like getting inside the heads of female characters. I think I can do that well, and I enjoy it.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

It's always hard for a writer to make herself into a character; I had to figure out what my defining characteristics were, and that's something I had to work through multiple drafts to figure out.

To get a connection to your characters, you have to put them in a situation that you can feel yourself.

I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.

I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of any deal that's better for me, and I'm always so grateful that readers have indulged me as I argue with myself in my stories.

I'm focused on finding characters I connect to.

There's some of me in all my characters.

There are fragments of me in all my characters.

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

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

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.

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.

I spent some time, six months or so, ruminating about the characters before I sat down to write 'Faith'.