Books Quote by Gunter Grass

Before I ever begin writing a new story, I have to sketch my characters out on paper. It's part of my process of understanding…

— Marie Lu

“Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect…

— C.K. Webb

So much of writing is about what characters don't say, and in the early drafts, sometimes things get overwritten.

— Peter Hedges

People seem to sometimes have a difficulty drawing that line between the character and the person.

— Clark Duke

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

— Ruth Ozeki

Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.

— Melissa McCarthy

“Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.”

— Federico Chini

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

— W. E. B. Griffin

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not…

— Jennifer Beals

“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,”…

— Sōseki Natsume

“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.”

— Anna-Cosette