Action Quote by Ellen Schreiber

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I…

— E. L. Konigsburg

Anytime I feel like I am beginning to explain the plot or characters too much my stomach churns. I like stories that let the…

— Charles Forsman

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

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out…

— Katie Cassidy

For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.

— Nic Pizzolatto

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

— Julianna Baggott

I like my characters to go through some changes during a story arc.

— Jim Starlin

Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their…

— Neal Shusterman

My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize…

— Adam Haslett

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've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm…

— Kim Edwards

I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next.

— Curtis Hanson