Rhianna Pratchett Quotes

Whenever you write a character, you want to make them themselves, you want to make them unique. You don't want fifty characters in your book and they all pretty much act and think the same except they have different colored hair.

So much of what I do... is coming up with new characters and trying to invent voices for them, and to have people fully fleshed out in my head and to know who can say what in the scene and who these characters are... I love it.

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

I have no idea and I think Steven King strongest suit is the characters that he does create, all in the same area where he lives. The way he describes them is one of his fortes and it boggles my mind how he's able to do that and to create so many. It must be thousands by now.

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

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

Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.

I like coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new stuff, that's kind of what excited me as an artist.

When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.

I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender.

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

I'm good at - or, rather, I like - giving names to characters.

I made Tony a person. For me, Tony was real. I made him become a human being, and that affected the animation and everything.

I've always toyed around with creating over-the-top lady characters in my head.

I really wanted to create some of my own characters, then it became wanting to act the parts, then it sort of grew from there because I really enjoyed doing it.

For as long as I can remember, I was always creating random characters.

Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character.

I don't know what the character is going to be. We sit down and we create a character, and all of the characters in all of my films are made like that.

The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers.

Every character I've had in my act - none of them have a similar creation story. I actually thought up Peanut and designed him in my head. I described him to a woman that was making soft puppets and she drew up some sketches. And the character came to be just because he popped into my head.

When I'm writing novels, even screenplays, it's never an actor I have in mind; it's always the version in my head of who the character is. Once somebody gets cast, I have to adjust a little bit to who they are.