Books Quote by W. E. B. Griffin Download Open image “An author's characters do what he wants them to do.” — W. E. B. Griffin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Character Want
Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.” — Anna-Cosette Copy Share Image
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them. — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act, in a… — Susan Minot Copy Share Image
I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect… — C.K. Webb Copy Share Image
“A great number of elements in the characters’ lives, both psychic and factual, are not communicated to us. […] These characters, I believe, enjoy… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Writers are generally split into two camps: those who carefully outline their stories and know the ending before they begin, and those who refuse… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my… — W. E. B. Griffin Copy Share Image
Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp. — W. E. B. Griffin Copy Share Image
I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. — W. E. B. Griffin Copy Share Image
My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant. — W. E. B. Griffin Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
