Judy Blume Quotes

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

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

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.

When I'm writing a story, which takes me a year or more, I can feel my character living with me - they're responding to whatever funny, familial, or social situation I'm in, and I think about their responses constantly.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like.

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

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

Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking.

I don't tend to picture my characters as actors and actresses.

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

I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

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.

The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can see into the heart of all your characters. Usually, when there's a writing problem, it's because you aren't doing that.

You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.

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

I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

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