Psychology Quote by J.F. Juzwik

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes…

— Dana Spiotta

“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people…

— Anne Lamott

“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by…

— Milan Kundera

“Risk is important to me as a writer, reader, and editor. I love stories that take a premise or style that seems unlikely to…

— Caitlin Horrocks

“I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am.”

— Cleveland W. Gibson

“Word to the wise writer...never underestimate your secondary characters! But watch them...they sneak off with stuff.”

— Ka Hancock

“Writers are dangerous because ideas are dangerous.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

“I did worry at one stage that all my stories seem to revolve around secrets, lies and self-deception, but then I realized that most…

— Jane Lovering

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

“Sometimes fiction is a way of coping with the poison of the world in a way that lets us survive it.”

— Neil Gaiman

“The character doesn't even come out until people are tested and be put in extreme situations and most people spend their lives trying to…

— Caprice Crane