About Quote by Drew Goddard

I feel like if you aren't honest and if you don't let go and ease up off of the narrator, then the story doesn't…

— Jesmyn Ward

Honestly, when you're writing you try to stay on the story, on the character's mind, trying to throw stuff at them. There is danger,…

— Fede Alvarez

Character is what someone does, much more than who they are. I can be sarcastic or I can be fearful, but it doesn't really…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes…

— Don Roff

Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.

— Ben Edlund

You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react.…

— Richard Dean Anderson

All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure.…

— J. Michael Straczynski

Stories are wondrous things. And they are dangerous.

— Thomas King

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

— Rod Paige

I like fearless characters, people just not afraid to do anything it takes to make people laugh.

— Dane Cook

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith