Choice Quote by Fred Hechinger

“Using Maslow’s insights, you can define higher-level values appropriate to your message, brand, and audience. Then, using what we learn from Joseph Campbell, you…

— Jonah Sachs

“He read with intensity and was passionately in love with every character, every turn of plot or twist of language. He made the characters…

— Sarah Ockler

But as I wrote the book [Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet], I tried to write it as clearly and directly and passionately as possible…

— Jeffrey Rosen

“How well your readers connect with and care about this character determines the success of a story. In other words, if they've emotionally gone…

— Susan May Warren

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant…

— Don DeLillo

“And that’s the first time I realized that the idea a character is what he does makes as much sense in life as it…

— Donald Miller

His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

— Richard Cecil

The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement…

— Richard Wright

“Good storytelling lets the audience relive events in the present so they can understand the forces, choices, and emotions that led the character to…

— John Truby

I do extensive research before I begin writing, but only a fraction of the research goes into the novels. The writer does not need…

— Edward Rutherfurd

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe