Best character Quote by Alison Pill

Novels are almost like music or poetry - they just come to me in simple sentences, whereas I think my pieces get more and…

— Joan Didion

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

— Joyce Carol Oates

The script in many ways is limiting and novel is liberating. You get to go into the heads of your characters and their background…

— Juliet Asante

There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the…

— Les Standiford

Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I think the further away you get from completing a book, the more responses you see to it from readers, the more your own…

— Joe Abercrombie

I love novels where not much 'happens' but where the interest is in the ideas and analyses of characters.

— Alain de Botton

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

— Don DeLillo

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last…

— Paul Auster

To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers…

— Tom Wolfe

There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When…

— Ramez Naam

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

— Cassandra Clare