“My characters tell me how they feel about other characters and events and they demand that I write it down for them.”
“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 see they are.”
“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.”
“I am not in control of how my characters live their lives, only in writing it down.”
“Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.”
“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.”