Jamie Hewlett Quotes

I used to say I wasn't interested in writing about characters.

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.

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.

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.

I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.

The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.

I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender.

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.

Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking.

Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan and the slew of fantastic writers and directors have always geared me towards making a three-dimensional human.

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

I write in character a lot.

As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction.

Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.

Outside books, we avoid colorful 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.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.

When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.