Greg Rucka Quotes

I don't ever really know where I get my characters from.

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

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.

We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

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 think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

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

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

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

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

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

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

I like to take a character and develop it.

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

I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender.

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.