Minka Kelly Quotes

I always try to write about believable people.

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

I like to write characters that feel like people that I would know.

I love all the characters I write.

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

I don't really base any of my characters on specific people that I know, although my characters are informed by the kind of people who live in my community.

As a writer, every time I create a character, I try to go for something to captivate the audience in some way. It's also an extension of how the audience would like to see themselves.

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

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.

I like to make definite choices and give my characters as many unique edges as possible.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.