Because Quote by Matthew Ashford

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

— Markus Zusak

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.

— Steve Buscemi

I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and…

— Michiel Huisman

I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they…

— Salman Rushdie

I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with…

— Alex Garland

Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate…

— Karen Traviss

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that…

— Francine Rivers

Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort…

— Chelsea Cain

If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding…

— Khaled Hosseini

It's just wonderful to be able to write about what my characters are thinking.

— Ruth Jones

Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the world and…

— Yiyun Li

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

— Melissa de la Cruz