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Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.

— Ann Brashares

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When you are gestating, you feel full of life, you feel full of joy, you feel full of fantasy, of stories.

— Thalia

When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

— Hallie Ephron

To be a geisha, you have to have to an iron-clad layer around you - around your physical body and your heart.

— Michelle Yeoh

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

— Ann Brashares

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.

— Francine Rivers

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

— Holliday Grainger

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

— Rick Riordan

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.

— James Dashner

✗Opposing Perspectives

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

— Cassandra Clare

I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.

— Thomas Middleditch