Catharsis Quote by Anne Rice

The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all.

— Swami Vivekananda

What's important is how the character drives the narrative.

— Tridha Choudhury

Every character, every story that you do, it teaches you a lot.

— Tripti Dimri

In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have…

— Dan Jenkins

Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or…

— Brian Selznick

Know what your characters want, know what they need most, know what they fear most, and don't be fearful of facing it, no matter…

— Mark Waid

A story should be good and characters should be well-rounded.

— Himani Shivpuri

I've always taken that as my guiding principle and the rest is just set dressing. You can have dragons in it, or aliens and…

— George R. R. Martin

The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to…

— Lynn Coady

Every character has its priorities, its path, its trajectory. So you prepare differently for each.

— Vikrant Massey

I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions…

— George Saunders

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are…

— Lauren Myracle