Character Quote by Sarah Lancashire

When you're actually inside the experience of writing something, in some ways, you're just writing. Ultimately, you fall in love with the characters, and…

— Simon Kinberg

If I'm really excited about a scene, I used to wait to write it, and now I'll just write it. When you do that,…

— Sabaa Tahir

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts…

— Sheila Heti

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

“The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story”

— Brandt Legg

Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's the way I can access the…

— Aimee Bender

All storytelling is kind of that - there's a bit of text that you put pressure on that spits out some desire that a…

— George Saunders

One of the great things about the longer you do a character, the more the writers start to understand your kind of character ticks…

— Chris Demetral

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

It's fun to figure out a way to make something happen that will get the reader involved on a visceral level. When written well,…

— Nick Petrie

Everybody has felt at one time or another that everyone else in the world had a better shot than they did, so when you…

— Robin Hobb

“Dwight Swain, the great writing teacher, once said that the secret of excitement is to go deeper into your characters. Create more backstory, more…

— James Scott Bell