Lisa Scottoline Quotes

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

I'm about my characters.

Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.

The people I write are real to me, and basically, they tell me about their environments on a need-to-know basis.

'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.

I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

I've got to write about my character every day. I've got to find out where he lives, what bus he catches to school, and stuff like that. You've got to know every little thing about him so when you do it, it feels natural.

The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character.

My stories are character driven.

I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.

I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

I know the relationships, and I already know my characters and how I'm going to reveal my characters to my readers - how I'm going to feed them information about that character. That stuff doesn't have to be in my outline.

When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough that you want to take a very long journey with them. That's how I begin thinking about what I want to write about and who I want to write about.

I think my best quality as a writer is the ability to craft complicated, nuanced, interesting characters.

I separate myself from my characters as much as possible, but I have these books that I create which are interactive diaries/timelines/memory books/pictures of the character's entire world.

My characters aren't chess pieces. I don't move them around some big board. I actually care about these fictitious people.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.

The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.

I think I would struggle with any job if it was purely about effects. Even as a viewer, those aren't the kind of things that interest me. I think ultimately you have to be connected to characters and their relationships. Otherwise, it's not drama to me.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.