Change Quote by Rob Parnell

“The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.”

— Donald Miller

“At the end of their journey, a hero may stand in the same place where their story started, but nevertheless they have been irrevocably…

— Amanda Gorman

“As a general rule, I surmise that most fictional stories are populated by misfits, changelings, and oddities, which is what makes the writing interesting…

— Todd Crawshaw

“Everyone has a story. It is what defines us. Our stories continue to change as we evolve in-and-out of our own skin, changing and…

— Brandon Garic Notch

“Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the streets, irreversibly…

— Henry Eliot

All stories are just stories of a character changing.

— Tom King

That's what fiction is about, isn't it, the selective transforming of reality? The twisting of it to bring out its essence?

— Yann Martel

“Stories change us; they change the world. People are stories of themselves.”

— Karen Healey

“If [the characters] grow a lot, they begin to influence the course of the story instead of the other way around.”

— Stephen King

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

— Terry Brooks

“Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better than the…

— Hiroshi Ishizaki

“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.”

— Katherine Paterson