Bertie Carvel Quotes

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.

Good fiction can both entertain and light up those dark corners where nice people don't want to go.

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

Sitting in marble corridors waiting for important people to lie to you.

You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.

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.

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

A lot of my characters are born out of a small grain in a person that I heighten and take to that next level. They're not based on anyone I've ever met, but they are these extreme versions of something.

Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.

When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words.

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

I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.

The idea of science fiction, mythology, and creating a world is my favourite thing. I do love the reality of dramas and playing that, but being able to start from scratch, to completely build the character and this world, I love that.

I like to create characters and worlds, and there's nothing like telling your own stories.

Once the world has been created, the fantasy author still has to bring the story's characters to life and unfold a gripping plot. That's why good fantasy is such a hard act to bring off.

I'm good at - or, rather, I like - giving names to characters.

The power that you have as a storyteller is to be able to tell stories that are at once entertaining but also never lose sight of what's going on in the real world.

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

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've always toyed around with creating over-the-top lady characters in my head.

I really preferred the characters I could totally create by myself, because I always think of myself as an actor first.

I love the novelist's freedom of going into different people's subjectivity and being able to work with them as characters.

I don't have a clear biography of my own that I could recount in an interesting way. I'm made up of the characters that I pulled out of my head, that I invented.

I really wanted to create some of my own characters, then it became wanting to act the parts, then it sort of grew from there because I really enjoyed doing it.

Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.