Be prepared Quote by Jeanette Winterson

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

— Dennis Prager

There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.

— David Walton

Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then the characters…

— Terry Pratchett

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in…

— Robert Boswell

Of course, building a character is easy when the writing is good.

— Helene Yorke

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

— Leonard Ravenhill

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

— Lori Loughlin

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources…

— Asa Butterfield

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters…

— A. S. Byatt

I learned that you have to respect how much time and work a writer has put into their book. I always give the writer…

— Kevin Sampsell

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as…

— Janet McTeer