I never draw blood on a first date.
The best plot twists are the ones you didn't expect.
I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
It's not a romance, it's a love story.
A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.
This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.
The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.
If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.
If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly.
Stop talking filthy things, It doesn't help anyone.
I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing.
I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that.
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.
A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.
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