Jill McCorkle Quotes

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.

There's some 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 believed in my characters. I lived them.

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.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.

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

All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.

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

There is a lot of myself in every character that I play.

What I love about my work is that I'm forced to look through my character's eyes.

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

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

All of my puppets have their own personalities, their own background, and they enjoy what they do. How they say things, sing things, how they talk. I kind of created them out of my own personality. They are all me.

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 do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

I love writing dialogue - it's when I really lose myself in my work. I love reading it, too, when it's good and rings true.

There are fragments of me in all my characters.

There's me in every character I put on the pages.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

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.