Terry Pratchett Quotes

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.

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.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

When I'm writing flawed characters, I just think about my own flaws.

There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.

I always find stuff in my characters to relate to.

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

For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

There's some of me in all my characters.

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.

I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

There are fragments of me in all my characters.

Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

There's me in every character I put on the pages.

I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.

Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

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

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

I made the character as much of myself as I could.

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

All my work is partly biographical. I mean, 'Crash' was absolutely that, absolutely. But you just wouldn't recognize me in most of those characters. But I was in every single one of those characters in 'Crash,' because those were all fears that I had felt. Things that I had thought in my deepest, darkest heart.