Book Quote by Sarah Weinman

The way I saw the characters these things just happened naturally. At the same time - and I know it's probably not apparent when…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

— James Ellroy

Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to it until…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the…

— Aimee Carter

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

— Anita Desai

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

— Cassandra Clare

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

— Jonathan Carroll

Any time you read a book and get attached to the characters, to me it's always a shock when it goes from page to…

— Suzanne Collins

Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just…

— Anna Todd

Life experiences help in understanding the character. And many things come to your mind regarding the character sketch when you read the script as…

— Koel Mallick

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again,…

— Joel Coen

Anytime I feel like I am beginning to explain the plot or characters too much my stomach churns. I like stories that let the…

— Charles Forsman