Background Quote by Isabel Allende

I think whenever you transform from normal light-hearted characters, to characters which might be out of your comfort zone or less relatable, that is…

— Abhishek Banerjee

I believe that every character is a setting, a world with moving parts, and on the other hand, every setting is, in fact, a…

— Jason Reynolds

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is…

— Margaret Mahy

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

— Brian Boyd

Life can be unsettling. Writers have always gravitated to conflict, unhappiness and disturbing themes. We as readers would get bored pretty quickly if stories…

— Clarence Major

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

— Tobias Wolff

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

— Tobias Wolff

People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact…

— Guy Claxton

A character does seem to have a life of its own, but I have what I'd describe as a very fluid relationship with them…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we are the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

— Doris Lessing

Multiple characters' opinions on societal roles, as well as their perceptions of themselves and others, help me lose myself in whatever strange and wonderful…

— Sabaa Tahir