Backgrounds Quote by David Brin

People are falling in love with characters now, and that is why writers are creating such stories. I am really happy that such stories…

— Rajkummar Rao

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in…

— Chinua Achebe

I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and those characters…

— Mohsin Hamid

I see this with experienced writers, too: They worry so much about the plot that they lose sight of the characters. They lose sight…

— Brian Michael Bendis

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

— Steven Amsterdam

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

— Melissa de la Cruz

I think main storylines are what always intrigued me, with those that were the relationships between the characters against whatever backdrop, whether it was…

— John Noble

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery…

— Lisa Gardner

I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

— Evan Daugherty

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

— Jeffrey Eugenides