Quote by A.H. Browne

“I love when the characters take over and live their own lives. I get to watch and write it all down.”

— Anna Adams

“We cannot control our circumstances, but we can control our character.”

— Patrick Morley

“I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can’t control life, at…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“You know your characters are truly alive, when they start to write their own story and take you to places you didn't expect.”

— Joanne McDonnell

“Life is too short to hide who you really are. Whether you’re a fictional character or a real person, you will not survive if…

— Hayley Guertin

“My characters tell me how they feel about other characters and events and they demand that I write it down for them.”

— Lindsay Marene Ordone

“Some things in life are just out of our control. It's what we do about them that counts.”

— Nora Roberts

“There's a certain magic about writing even when the characters refuse to act the way I want them to.”

— Gloria Bevan

“At times, quotes from the books talk more about our lives than on the lives of the characters.”

— John Green

“You can't control it. Life is not something you wield.”

— John Green

“I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh