Charles Soule Quotes

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.

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.

What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.

If you start writing to an audience you're talking down to them. I've never written for any age group, I just write character. If you can capture that you'll get the audiences, and it will be a wide range, as it is for 'Twilight,' it's a pretty wide range.

Being a screenwriter for a comedy, you're writing for characters in them in their voice. I could write anyone.

I write in character a lot.

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.

When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.

Every creator sets up their world differently. That's what's so amazing about someone like Aaron Sorkin and his writing.

Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.

If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.

My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.

I try to give all my characters a sense of humor, so I guess I feel like I have done comedy, but maybe I'm better known for drama.

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.

You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.