Book Quote by R.P. Heinz Download Open image ““The story can be great but the characters make the book”” — R.P. Heinz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books
“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.” — Molly Evangeline Copy Share Image
“good storytelling is good because the characters — not the author — are in charge.” — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect… — C.K. Webb Copy Share Image
“To write an excellent novel, make the outcome of the story matter to the reader through the evolving relationships between well-designed characters.” — Martin Sandforth Copy Share Image
“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.” — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
“The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up.” — Mike Bove Copy Share Image
“The characters write the story … I just get to be the first one to read it!” — Sam Bradley Copy Share Image
“By mastering character and plot, you give your book a fighting chance and without character and plot, no book can survive.” — Craig Hart Copy Share Image
“The problem lies not with the characters within the novel, but with the reader itself.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
