“Great characters tell their own stories. The author just writes it down for them.”
“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.”
“My characters tell me how they feel about other characters and events and they demand that I write it down for them.”
“a story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.”
“A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning desire to tell that person's story.”
“Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to tell too much. We aren’t satisfied unless at the end of the story the characters are lying there, panting.”