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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.

There is no creative process to come up with a character of Dean Ambrose.

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.

I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.

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

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

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

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.

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

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?'

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

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

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

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.

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.