Characters Quote by Michael J. Kannengieser

“...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

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

— Molly Evangeline

“You know your characters are truly alive, when they start to write their own story and take you to places you didn't expect.”

— Joanne McDonnell

“The characters write the story … I just get to be the first one to read it!”

— Sam Bradley

“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

“A well-developed and versed character will write the story for you.”

— A.R. Voss

“I don't write stories, I write characters.”

— Bhavya Kaushik

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

— Kerry Frith

“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

“As far as my characters doing what I want them to, I'm afraid I'm not a real writer like the rest of you because…

— Jessie Chandler

“I follow where the story goes. Always. Every time. Sometimes it goes places where I'm not comfortable... it's at those times that I just…

— Dennis Sharpe

“You couldn’t control how your story started, but you can write a few good pages in there”

— Mustafa Saifuddin