Done Quote by Paul Kane

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

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler

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

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to…

— Margaret Haddix

If you have a great characters, you can always have your character do nothing or do something stupid, and people will still follow them,…

— Drew Magary

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

— Andrea Arnold

If you're not writing your own story, you're a character in someone else's.

— Chris Brogan

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as…

— Janet McTeer

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is…

— Margaret Mahy

I think that in general - well, at least it's true for me - you tend to put something of yourself into the story…

— Sam Lake

Writing stories, adopting other characters, making up fantastic stories and tales, this is a way of perhaps enhancing who I am. Writing stories takes…

— David Small