Frank Vincent Quotes

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

I love all the characters I write.

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 always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.

I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

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

In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.

You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.

I admit I do develop characters from little parts of things I've seen others do.

I came into this business to create characters that moved people and told stories.

There is no creative process to come up with a character of Dean Ambrose.