I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it. - Jillian Bell

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you’ll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally gray terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting. - Joel Edgerton

A hero is a person who says yes to adventure. - Kendra Levin

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose. - Stephen King

My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play in it, for good or evil, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many. - J.R.R. Tolkien

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. - Hector Berlioz

Magic happens between the notes. - Linda Bott

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit… archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character. - Kristan Higgins

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. - Joss Whedon

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! - Anton Chekhov

People - and characters - are made up of their past experiences. When crafting a character, one of the most important aspects we consider is her past. - Sky Fairwin

A lone protagonist never receives as great a reaction as one with a well-developed supporting cast. - Susan Spann

You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there are stout fighters, mighty magic-users, wily thieves, and courageous clerics who will make their mark in the magical lands of D&D adventure. You however, are above even the greatest of these, for as DM you are to become the Shaper of the Cosmos. It is you who will give form and content to all the universe. You will breathe life into the stillness, giving meaning and purpose to all the actions which are to follow. - Gary Gygax

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway

The more limitations you put on a character often times the better a character you'll make them, the more interesting the story becomes because the character can't simply wave a hand and make something happen. They have to work within the framework. - Brandon Sanderson

When reading, we don’t fall in love with the characters’ appearances. We fall in love with their words, their thoughts, and their hearts. We fall in love with their souls. - Unknown