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- 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
- 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
- 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Anne Lamott