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I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and their characters interwoven, they do end up together somehow.

— Imtiaz Ali

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I write characters. Some of those characters are women.

— Greg Rucka

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

— J. J. Abrams

Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen.

— Michelle Paver

I'm a very girlie girl, but I often find the heroes of my books trying to take over the story. In truth, I enjoy writing the male point of view more than any other.

— Deborah Raney

Whenever I write a story, I hope it appeals to both boys and girls.

— Suzanne Collins

I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.

— Daniel Woodrell

Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.

— Eli Roth

My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.

— Susan Choi

✗Opposing Perspectives

Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a main character. I surrender the book to her.

— Elmore Leonard