Your Characters Quotes

65 quotes by 57 authors

Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls… — Anne Lamott
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress
Whether your characters journey daily to a distant moon or just down the street to the corner bar, what matters to the reader is the… — Peter Selgin
One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters. — Jeremy Piven
A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from the… — Lynn Flewelling
Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page. — Thomas Pynchon
Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is… — Ray Bradbury
Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do — Laurell K. Hamilton
My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to… — Rosamunde Pilcher
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! — Anton Chekhov
Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may. — Anne Lamott
The writer must always leave room for the characters to grow and change. If you move your characters from plot point to plot point, like… — Richard North Patterson
When your charactersÂ areÂ really living they tell you what they do. — Andrea Arnold
In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard… — Jessica Cutler
People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with… — Diablo Cody
The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters. — Cynthia Ozick
The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself. — Norman Mailer
Put your characters where they are the most interesting. — James D. Macdonald
Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is… — Horacio Quiroga

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