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Your Characters Quotes by Hallie Ephron
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- 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… — Peter Selgin
- The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself. — Norman Mailer
- Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be… — Horacio Quiroga
- The passion for the story is the wind in your narrative sails. Begin at the heart. We must hear the heartbeat of… — Patricia Lee Gauch
- You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind… — Joel Coen
- 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… — Anne Lamott
- One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters. — Jeremy Piven