Callum Turner Quotes

You have to be able to toss the thing out. You can't fall in love with your characters, and you have to know when to fight - and when to quit.

I spent some time, six months or so, ruminating about the characters before I sat down to write 'Faith'.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

In 'Me Before You,' the two characters popped into my head fully formed, which is really strange and unusual. Other books, I sit on them for two or three months. I have a whole routine: I buy a nice book; I hand-write all their characteristics. I put them through little tests just to see how they would react to things.

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

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

No I don't really write thinking about specific actors because it can get in the way a little bit.

I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.

I like to take a character and develop it.

I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam.

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

Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.

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

Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.

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

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.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.

When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

At the end of the day, it's really, really difficult to make a brand-new show, to write a pilot where you have to introduce characters and everyone has to kind of be dynamic and have something different for themselves.