Lois Lowry Quotes

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.

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

To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

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

A new character is like bringing a new human being into your life.

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

You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?

I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

I spend a lot of time with my characters.

I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.

Most of the time, when I'm writing, I'm writing for myself. I'm thinking, 'What will my character say at this time? What will come out of her mouth?' I create individuals so real to me, I sometimes start talking to them. Then I let them loose on the page.

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words.

I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.

I don't believe you just create a character out of thin air, there's always something of yourself you bring.

You can start imagining all kinds of things characters would feel, but you have to have a sense of whether those imaginings might be right.

I made Tony a person. For me, Tony was real. I made him become a human being, and that affected the animation and everything.

There's some of me in all my characters.

For as long as I can remember, I was always creating random characters.

There are fragments of me in all my characters.

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.

One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented ones I've ever had. It really helps me as far as character development because they paint a very descriptive picture of who the characters are while still letting us have freedom to put in our own ideas.