Arcs Quote by Shannyn Sossamon

I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and…

— Michiel Huisman

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that…

— Francine Rivers

Characters who are absolutely sure about what they do, who plunge ahead without fear, are not that interesting. We don’t go through life that…

— James Scott Bell

Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their…

— Neal Shusterman

I think that in general - well, at least it's true for me - you tend to put something of yourself into the story…

— Sam Lake

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I…

— E. L. Konigsburg

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler

I can't control what a reader takes from a story.

— Marjorie Liu

I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so…

— Debra Granik

Honestly, when you're writing you try to stay on the story, on the character's mind, trying to throw stuff at them. There is danger,…

— Fede Alvarez

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

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