John Layfield Quotes

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.

What I'm really trying to do is create unique characters.

You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

There is no creative process to come up with a character of Dean Ambrose.

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

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

I do like to embed a fictional character firmly in an occupation.

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

So much of what I do... is coming up with new characters and trying to invent voices for them, and to have people fully fleshed out in my head and to know who can say what in the scene and who these characters are... I love it.

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.

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

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.

Characters are an extension of your imagination.

I wrote a story about a character who looks like Harry Styles. But it has nothing to do with Harry Styles at all.

The fun of writing established characters is that there's a rich mythology to draw from - you get to play with toys you loved as a kid.

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 mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.

The thing with videogame characters is that they tend to be really undercooked, and people don't take the time to really flesh them out. They don't treat them with the respect that a writer writing characters in any other medium would treat their character.

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.