Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

All my characters are me, in one way or another.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

All of my characters, I feel, have some essence of who I am in them.

Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.

I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

There's some of me in all my characters.

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.

The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

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

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

Everything I do is personal. I have never made a movie that didn't have very strong personal resonance.

Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.

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

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

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

I don't know, I feel like any role that I play is a little piece of me, whether it's their perspective, maybe how they dress, what they think is funny, their loyalty to their friends. It all stems from Kiersey.

Ultimately, I don't think you can be a character who's completely alien or divorced from your own personality. It's probably true of every writer - it's probably true of every filmmaker, every songwriter - that, ultimately, every character you create is a facet of yourself.

There are fragments of me in all my characters.

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another novel.

I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in this kind of a strip. It's the only way that you can survive when you have to do something every day. You have to put yourself, all of your thoughts, all of your observations and everything you know into the strip.

The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.

I'm sure there's pieces of me in all the characters I play.

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

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.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.