Development Quote by Karin Slaughter Download Open image “You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel.” — Karin Slaughter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Development Novel Risks Take You
Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges. — Brittany Snow Copy Share Image
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot. — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full. — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters. — James Dashner Copy Share Image
The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmith, and Margaret Mitchell. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I love puns. I've been known to turn the car around just to take advantage of a good pun situation. It really is the… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“To all the librarians in the world on behalf of all the kids y’all helped grow up to be writers” — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Moon was from somewhere up east, the kind of place where consonants took on a life of their own. In addition to this, she… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“I’ve got to figure out before I die whether I want to be happy or I want to be right.” — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
A lot of times I'll show someone a technique I got really good with, but I didn't put all the hours in. I didn't… — Eddie Bravo Copy Share Image
Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
When they started to drain a swamp where birds and fish had lived, for a new housing development down the road from his apartment,… — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
