Tom Hiddleston Quotes

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

They've turned this character into a human being.

When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.

To create a fully formed character full of life, struggle, and humanity is tough.

To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

The more you spend time with a character, the more you see different nuances of that character.

I do just love the characters in sci-fi, but not necessarily the fact that it's sci-fi.

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.

Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.

I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives.

It's so difficult, particularly with an antisocial character. It's much easier if he's already a blank page, but once you've written on him, it's hard to keep him that stripped down.

I enjoy bringing humanity to complex characters.

For me, the best characters are the ones that feel fully formed inside and out, so I try to have a very clear vision of exactly what they would wear, top to bottom, who they are, what their backstory is, what their family situation is, who are their friends, just creating as much of a three-dimensional character [as possible]. Because I think you could do a very broad character, but as long as there's some emotional truth to them you can get away with really crazy things.

The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.

The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.

The way I see the job, my definition of it, is to create characters to the best of your ability and then fit into what's trying to be accomplished in the general framework of the film. I think that's whether you're doing this- even if you're doing musical theater. That's what I think an actors job is. I don't know. I like to think what an actors job is is to create characters.

If you're dealing with a character that actually exists, there's an awful lot of information there. So, you can put together, from the information, motivations, insecurities, reactions. Where does that seed get born, if you like?... What I do is put that together.

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.

You lose somebody you've possibly known for years and on top of that you lose a character that you love seeing on TV so I think that kind of makes it cool that we pay a price too. That it is painful on many levels and its amazing to be writing that moment and crossing that line right on the page and seeing the ugliness of it and having to deal with it. It's a very weird thing.

If you create a character, you create a destiny.

People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.

The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.

I think a lot of creators are attracted to those toys they got to play with when they were young, and everyone wants to write a Superman story or a Batman story or a Spider-Man story. I don't know, if it's been successful for me, it should be successful for anyone. "Hit the ground with your feet running" is the secret of breaking new characters when it seems like no one else is having any luck.