Dave Gibbons Quotes

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 was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But really, already, by the time I'd started writing superhero comics, my dream was really to be writing my own characters.

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

Doc Savage, Indiana Jones, Flash Gordon... these were the kinds of characters I was thinking about as I was developing Jonas Quantum because there aren't that many brand new characters being introduced anymore.

'Fanboys' was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters.

The idea of science fiction, mythology, and creating a world is my favourite thing. I do love the reality of dramas and playing that, but being able to start from scratch, to completely build the character and this world, I love that.

A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.

Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.

Designing characters for 'Dragon Quest' is fun but difficult work.

I'm personally not terribly interested in designing wholesome characters, so I don't have many variations to offer.

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

I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.

Miranda's my character; I created her! But there's a lot of comedy I want to bring to the world that isn't just Miranda.

I'm just trying to create characters and tell stories.

As writers, our job is to try to create, in a fake space, something that feels true. That's just straight-up fiction: Invent a character that doesn't exist; make them seem like they do.

I'm a big fan of when you model a character as someone with a biological origin, doing deep dives and a lot of research.

Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character.

The power with which you can create a character is tremendous and probably more satisfying than actually being the person.

I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them.

If you're creating your character, you can have full ownership of the emotional range they go through. You can make bolder choices.

This is what I think is fun about fiction - you get to use as much history as you want as scaffolding and then go beyond it and change it and mutate it.

As with all types of writing, fantastical fiction depends on the same basic rules.

The fun of writing established characters is that there's a rich mythology to draw from - you get to play with toys you loved as a kid.

When I was writing my first novel, 'Elizabeth is Missing,' I was writing the only novel I had ever written and writing about the only protagonist I'd ever written about. Because of this, I didn't think of her as a construct. Maud was real.

You meet people and you hear the way they talk and the way they behave, and that subconsciously gets fed into the characters you create 'cause you have to make them flesh and blood somehow.