Begin Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“Make your characters interested in something. Striving for something. In need of something. Good at something. This will make them likeable and interesting.”

— James Franco

“I realised that when someone plays hard to get, they are making themselves into a character in a story, and they choose the story…

— Scarlett Thomas

“Your main character not only needs a goal, she need an inner desire.”

— Jill Williamson

“The end is the point of wanting something in the first place, isn’t it?”

— Gabe Habash

“You create your characters, set things in motion, and then let those characters and the situations they encounter tell you how they’re going to end up.”

— Laird Barron

“A character’s want is a superficial conscious desire for the thing they think they need in order to present themselves to the world, a”

— John Yorke

“I guess no matter who we are or where we’re starting from, we all want something other than what we’ve got.”

— Susan Gregg Gilmore

“One thing I'm certain of: wanting just leads to more wanting. There's no end to desire.”

— Nicola Yoon

“When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants.”

— Bryant McGill

“In order to get what we want, we must become what we want”

— Dana Gore

“You try to decide if you should take this as a message of endings. Or beginnings.”

— Francesca Lia Block

“I want" - The beginning and end of it all.”

— Namrata