Character Quote by IronE Singleton

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

— Olivia Munn

“Writers are generally split into two camps: those who carefully outline their stories and know the ending before they begin, and those who refuse…

— John Grisham

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

— Steve Buscemi

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

But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the…

— Elizabeth George

We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you are thinking…

— Meg Wolitzer

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

Before I begin a novel I have a strong sense of at least one central character and how the story begins, and a more…

— Steve Erickson

There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another…

— John Dos Passos

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with…

— Alex Garland

Whenever we've approached a story, it's always started with the character, and the idea of some character struggling with some part of himself. That's…

— Anna Boden

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

— Ethan Canin