Ashamed Quote by Jess Walter

My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.

— Steve Vai

Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don’t want you to be…

— Stella Adler

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

— Chris Brogan

Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective.

— Willy Mason

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

— Alan Furst

In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention in the…

— Roger Zelazny

I find myself speaking through the other characters, putting ideas in their voices and heads. Writing almost becomes a splitting of myself into multiple…

— Danzy Senna

Once you realize your past is just a story, it has no power over you.

— Anonymous

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

— Jodi Picoult

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

— Jodi Picoult

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.

— Stephen King

As a writer, you understand how hard it is to build up backstory for characters, so you can have impactful moments. You have to…

— Cory Barlog