Quote by Joanne McDonnell

“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.”

— Molly Evangeline

“My characters tell me how they feel about other characters and events and they demand that I write it down for them.”

— Lindsay Marene Ordone

“I love when the characters take over and live their own lives. I get to watch and write it all down.”

— Anna Adams

“Most importantly, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good…

— Daniel Kahneman

“And it's not that I'm a good writer. I found good characters. They tell me what to write, and thank God for that because…

— M.L. Gardner

“...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it…

— Angelica Banks

“I climb into my characters’ heads and live there while I write.”

— Catherine Cruzan

“Just when we think we have our own stories figured out, heroes arise in the most unexpected places.”

— Camron Wright

“You know you're a writer when you wish you could meet your characters and hang out with them.”

— Kerry Frith

“Sometimes it takes the story to grow, for the real characters to emerge.”

— Daniel Kaye

“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.”

— Terry a O'Neal

“If they are good characters, they have minds of their owns. If they are great characters, they go stomping off into the sunset and…

— Wendi Kelly