Your Characters Quotes by Peter Selgin

More Your Characters Quotes

Popular Your Characters quotes from across the collection:

• 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 writer must always leave room for the characters to grow and change. If you move your characters from plot point to… — Richard North Patterson
• 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
• Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things. — Ally Carter
• I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why… — Natalie Portman

See all Your Characters Quotes »