Maggie Q Quotes

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

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

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

I enjoy the writing process and producing; I enjoy seeing an idea come to fruition. I'm driven by very complex characters. You look at the pilot of 'Breaking Bad,' where there's so much depth to the character, you can't help but be invested when you watch.

I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.

Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds.

I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

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

For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

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

As a writer of fiction, you don't ever want to limit the characters you create to the life you've lived. That's insanity to me.

It always comes down to script and characters.

I think my best quality as a writer is the ability to craft complicated, nuanced, interesting characters.

For 'The Bestseller'... there was hardly any research, but I had to give each person a quirk and develop their stories so that it would relate to who they are.

I want to give my characters nuance.

To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.

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

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

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.

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

I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.

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?'

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.