Anthony Marra Quotes

I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.

I believe that if the story is fleshed out and the characters more believable, the reader is more likely to take the journey with them. In addition, the plot can be more complex. My characters are very real to me, and I want each of my characters to be different.

I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

I always try to write about believable people.

Make your characters believable, and your reader will believe what they believe.

What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're probably not going to pay as much attention to a question like, 'Does this person bite their nails?'

If you let the plot be determined by what you feel is in the character's mind at that point, it may not turn out to be a very good play, but at least it will be a play where people are behaving in a kind of truthful way.

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

I love thinking of cartoon characters feeling really real feelings. And I love to do that, not just as a fan, but as a creator, so if people want to look for those levels, they're actually there.

I do not choose characters because I think, 'Wow, that woman is so strong.' I chose these characters with utmost conviction because I think they were realistic enough to exist, and I really liked the scripts.

I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

Your structure and format may not be perfect, and you may not have picked the perfect franchise, but if I pick up a script, and the characters are real, whole, complicated and come from a place of somebody who really is feeling it, that's what people remember.

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

I love storytelling. I love characters that are complicated and layered, real people, that you see why they do what they do.

You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.

I think, when I write, one of the things that I'm really attempting to do is I'm attempting to humanize my characters.

I think, ultimately, if you create characters that people like and can relate to, your characters are grounded on a human level even if your cars are not.

I think really good drama comes down to real human emotion. That's what makes us all tick, and that's what I've always been drawn to when it comes to scripts is real human emotion and dealing with that.

What I need, as a reader, is a character with a heart and a voice and a pulse. I need a character so vivid and so specific that she doesn't feel like fiction.

I like to write characters that feel like people that I would know.