Peter Finch Quotes

There are bits of me in all my characters.

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 always find stuff in my characters to relate to.

There's some of me in all my characters.

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.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes.

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

There are fragments of me in all my characters.

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.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

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.

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.

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.

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

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.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

When I'm writing a story, which takes me a year or more, I can feel my character living with me - they're responding to whatever funny, familial, or social situation I'm in, and I think about their responses constantly.