Any Quote by Guy Gavriel Kay

Usually I start with a concept, which I then sketch out so that I can get a feel for the character. The character doesn't…

— Noelle Stevenson

“take details from “real life” into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do the unbelievable…

— Dorothy Allison

Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story

— Esther Freud

In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have…

— Dan Jenkins

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some…

— Jill McCorkle

The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

— George Lucas

The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give…

— Elizabeth Bowen

I've always been a big believer that you can use the elements of storytelling to bring the reader along and to hopefully illuminate a…

— David Grann

You hear many things, take a little from each experience, and tune your imagination to create believable characters and situations.

— Dave Clark

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

David Corbett's The Art of Character offers a deep inquiry into the creation of character for the novice writer, with valuable nuggets of wisdom…

— Jacqueline Winspear

My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a…

— Anonymous