Quote by Scarlett Thomas

“Sometimes it takes the story to grow, for the real characters to emerge.”

— Daniel Kaye

“Make a character want something — that’s how you begin.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Every story is ultimately about characters, and how they are affected by their adventure.”

— Chris Fox

“A story is a story, and one may glean from it what one likes. Good sense need not enter into it.”

— G. Willow Wilson

“A story is about a single moment in a character's life when a definitive choice is made, after which nothing is the same.”

— John L'Heureux

“I confess... I've always been secretly amused by people who play 'hard to get,' when they're already so hard to want.”

— Kianu Starr

“I confess... I'm always secretly amused by people who play 'hard to get,' when they're already so hard to want.”

— Kianu Starr

“Of all the principles I'd learn about story, the idea that a character is what he does remains the hardest to actually live.”

— Donald Miller

“Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never…

— Shannon L. Alder

“any storyteller, we explore our own psyche and ask everyone to go with us. It's harder for some than for others.”

— Max Davine

“The story can be great but the characters make the book”

— R.P. Heinz

“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.”

— Molly Evangeline