Michael Hirst Quotes

As I was writing 'Insidious 3' I started to fall in love with the characters and the story. I became very possessive of it and I didn't want someone else to do it.

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

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.

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?

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

If I don't fall in love with my characters, I cannot shoot.

In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've had in a while. It made me think it would be nice to stick with the characters for a little bit and see what happens.

I always find something in all the characters I play. I fall in love with them a little bit.

I need a distance to my characters when I write.

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.

There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

I love reading for a character I have no business reading for.

There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.

I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.

I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

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 simply love writing good stories; that's my passion.

To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.

Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.

These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.

As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

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

If I love the character, then that's all that matters to me. It doesn't really matter what genre it is.

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.