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Characters Quotes by Stephen King
- It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.
- Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good—they are the heroes of their own lives. Giving…
- As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.
- Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my…
- The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about…
- When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the…
- I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it…
- I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.
- Once I start work on a project, I don’t stop and I don’t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I don’t write every…
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