A book is simply a snap shot of the full story.
I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.
Sometimes ignorance is a bliss. If you reach enlightenment (in one way or another), you may see the reality of human nature. You may like it, or you may reject it. But certainly you won't regret it. R...
When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!
A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.
Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.
A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.
Write what you love. Fill your pages with the beating of your own heart, the breath from your own lungs. Live through your characters. Let your characters live through you. Then you will love what you...
As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I...
You can't write a sory until you've felt. Breathe it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story.
I never draw blood on a first date.
I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have...
I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.
The best plot twists are the ones you didn't expect.
As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thi...
Just because something isn’t good doesn’t mean it’s bad.
I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to...
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
An author who does not support his or her characters does not deserve the support of readers. EVER!
I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books.
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