Bette Midler Quotes

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

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

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're probably not going to pay as much attention to a question like, 'Does this person bite their nails?'

I like to take a character and develop it.

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.

Stories are important, but I'm really into characters, and if you can give birth to a good one, that's true success.

I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them.

The thing with videogame characters is that they tend to be really undercooked, and people don't take the time to really flesh them out. They don't treat them with the respect that a writer writing characters in any other medium would treat their character.

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

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books.

For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life.

Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe.

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.

I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.

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

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

I'm about my characters.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.

This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces.