Your Characters Quotes

65 quotes by 57 authors

The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of the story. Love… — Patricia Lee Gauch
Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to… — Francesca Lia Block
As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own! — Melissa de la Cruz
Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say… — Anne Lamott
Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. Thatâ€™s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being… — Po Bronson
You can never know enough about your characters — W. Somerset Maugham
Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after. — Douglas Sirk
Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things. — Ally Carter
The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters. — Saul Bellow
Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter. — Tina Fey
If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... It's important to care about them. About who they are and what… — Neil Gaiman
That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. — Kerry Washington
Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the extraordinary and the mundane through… — Dinaw Mengestu
. . . the cruel part is that, to let the play live, you have to surrender control and let your characters go. You have… — Tina Howe
. . . I felt that making her one-dimensional would be an insult to the audience, and also not as interesting. All destructive people have… — Richard LaGravenese
As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a… — Ashley Rickards
In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a… — Shawn Ryan
I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief… — Clive Cussler
As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to… — Amy Waldman
All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals. — J.A. Konrath

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