characters

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.

I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.

When wealth goes only happiness goes, when health goes even the hope goes.

Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

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 write, and others will, too.

And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course.

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 thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.

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.

Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.

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.

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends.

A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.

You can never know enough about your characters

A book is simply a snap shot of the full story.

Anyone can be a story. Everyone is.

God is the source of life, honour and wealth.

I turned to the window. A single raindrop fell against it, and seeing my reflection in the glass, I suddenly knew why Finn__ eyes were familiar.They were exactly like mine.