Writing Quote by Diane Setterfield

“Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story.”

— Diane Setterfield

“Yeah, apparently this chick didn’t know-“ He held up a hand. “Thank you, but I came to hear your story, not theirs,” he took…

— Melanie Fair

“Accept the unknown. There are no secondary characters. Each one is silhouetted against the sky. All have the same stature. Within a given story…

— John Berger

“Mrs. May looked back at her. "Kate," she said after a moment, "stories never really end. They can go on and on and on.…

— Mary Norton

“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.”

— Molly Evangeline

“Her stories only had a dramatic ending, never a sequel.”

— Petra Hammesfahr

“The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It’s about your character getting molded in the hard work of the middle.”

— Donald Miller

“Word to the wise writer...never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them...they sneak off with stuff.”

— Ka Hancock

“Is any story not always the narrator's story, in the end?”

— Lee Smith

“It was as if I'd been in the middle of a book that I had to put down when I got too tired to…

— Joyce Maynard

“She explained sometimes the story is supposed to be missing because it's still waiting to be written.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

“You know your characters are truly alive, when they start to write their own story and take you to places you didn't expect.”

— Joanne McDonnell