Book Quote by Jillian Medoff

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never…

— Lisa Lutz

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may…

— Laurie Graham

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them…

— Miley Cyrus

When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have the last…

— Paul Auster

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial…

— Julia Glass

With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm…

— Catherine Fisher

Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just…

— Anna Todd

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman

That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying…

— Jonathan Dee

I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from an outline.…

— Jesmyn Ward

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going…

— Stephen King