Zoe Quinn Quotes

When you write a show, every character is you to some extent.

Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.

One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.

Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.

I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

I've written short stories from male perspectives before, and I've never had a problem with it as long as I've understood the character's emotions and motivations.

In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise.

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

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

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking.

The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.

I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of their personality.

I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.

I'm never writing as a character.

All my main characters have got bits of me, bits of my family, bits of my friends.

If you're writing on your own, each character is just you. It's just you.