Character Quote by Aleksandar Hemon

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features…

— P.D. Ouspensky

“when a branch of psychology, sometimes called performance psychology, began to systematically explore what separates experts (in many different fields) from everyone else. In…

— Cal Newport

“The simple answer is that I have changed my techniques in order to avoid the relentless sameness of my material, but I have probably…

— Ben Marcus

There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history - military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War, that sort…

— H. W. Brands

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told.…

— Paul Ricoeur

I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at…

— Patricia Highsmith

Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not…

— Anonymous

Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all…

— Michael Moorcock

As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be more neutral.…

— Dolph Lundgren

All my main characters are people I'd love to sit around having coffee with. They are people who will tell you honestly about the…

— Katherine Center

Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.

— Will Hobbs