It's not a romance, it's a love story.
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.
George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.
I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.
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 have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. I have peeped shamelessly into hearts and bathroom closets. I have leant over shoulders to follow the movements of quills as...
Characters are just extensions of my madness.
This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.
A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.
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.
Typically, we start out with enthusiasm and then grow unsure--sometimes about everything.
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.
And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.
An author who does not support his or her characters does not deserve the support of readers. EVER!
The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the r...
I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.
Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank s...
I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly...