Characters Quote by Jim Lynch

Settings are obviously important - and as a writer, you have to respect what was real at the time of the story you're writing.…

— Joan Lingard

Setting can be something that is a major player in a scene, something that makes the mood leap from the page. But if an…

— Kim Smith

For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't work.

— Kim Smith

Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other,…

— Anonymous

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

— Tony Hillerman

Every character has its priorities, its path, its trajectory. So you prepare differently for each.

— Vikrant Massey

I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and…

— Deb Caletti

Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what…

— William Gibson

Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.

— Nicola Griffith

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

— Steve Carell

I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.

— Susan Choi

I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.

— Quentin Tarantino