Quote by James Franco

“Make a character want something — that’s how you begin.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“something is what makes protagonists interesting.”

— Nathan Bransford

“My characters tell me how they feel about other characters and events and they demand that I write it down for them.”

— Lindsay Marene Ordone

“EYou reveal your character by what you do with what you have.”

— GE Paulus

“Don't try to get ideas; create the situation for them instead.”

— Haresh Sippy

“My needs were simple. I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors. I wanted…

— Ian McEwan

“You create your characters, set things in motion, and then let those characters and the situations they encounter tell you how they’re going to end up.”

— Laird Barron

“If I want to write something interesting, I must be interested in what I'm writing.”

— Peter Arpesella

“I realised that when someone plays hard to get, they are making themselves into a character in a story, and they choose the story…

— Scarlett Thomas

“I always find something to enjoy. If not the story, then the scenery or the costumes. There’s always something good about it.”

— Alaa Alghamdi

“Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your…

— Michael J. Kannengieser

“sometimes it's not so much what the characters saying, but what they r feeling,thinking or doing that is important to an animated feature.”

— Don Hahn