Back doors Quote by Tori Amos

I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of…

— Lisa Gardner

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in…

— Anonymous

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is…

— Margaret Mahy

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

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters…

— Paul Kane

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I used to be surprised and a little annoyed when characters would reappear in my mind, itching to be in another story. Now I…

— Peter Orner

I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with…

— Wendy Wasserstein

Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they almost always…

— Dacia Maraini

If somebody is in a story, they need to be there for a reason, and not just to set up somebody else's story.

— Joss Whedon

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

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

— Paul Auster