947 Quotes About Characters

Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of."[From the preface.]

We live in a society where mutual respect and appreciation should be considered one of the pillars of modern life.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.

A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.

In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.

The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.