Character Quote by Jesmyn Ward

I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I…

— Samantha Shannon

Funny how someone thinks they know the entire story when they have only read the first line of chapter one.

— Abhishek Tiwari

It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told…

— Arthur Herzog

I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character,…

— George R. R. Martin

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to…

— Mitch Albom

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the…

— Sophia Bush

I realized early on in writing the book that it needed to be from a family point of view, and that nobody outside the…

— Mary Kay Zuravleff

While the cast of characters stays the same, I always try to add in new information so readers get to know the people they…

— Jane Cleland

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

— L. Sprague de Camp

Do not repeat chapters, for the ending of the story never changes!

— Anonymous

Don't repeat chapters. The ending of the story will never change.

— Anonymous

I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.

— Paul Lieberstein