Actually Quote by E. L. Konigsburg

When we approach characters, we don't have their full story in mind right off the bat. Through the writing process we raise questions about…

— Anna Boden

We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story…

— Aaron Ehasz

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

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go…

— Julie Kagawa

Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the…

— Aimee Carter

The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand…

— Jaume Cabre

What's important is how the character drives the narrative.

— Tridha Choudhury

I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they…

— Salman Rushdie

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to…

— Ellen Schreiber

Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding of the…

— Olivia Wilde

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

— Nora Roberts

I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.

— Charles de Lint