Author-quotes Quote by Lisa Marbly-Warir

“Sometimes you have to let others tell their story about you...even if most of it is fabricated. Your character will tell your side without…

— Sanjo Jendayi

“Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But…

— Neil Gaiman

“The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“You know you are a writer when characters inside your brain keep demanding, 'This is my story! Now tell it or I will never…

— Christy Hall

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

— Molly Evangeline

“...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

“Start telling the stories that only you can tell. Because there will always be better writers than you, and there will always be smarter…

— Neil Gaiman

“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.”

— Anna-Cosette

We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story…

— Aaron Ehasz

“A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning desire to…

— Suzanne Brockmann

“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,”…

— Sōseki Natsume