Lauren Myracle Quotes

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.

I spend a lot of time with my characters.

What I'm really trying to do is create unique characters.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

I don't write a whole lot about one person that exists in reality; it's usually characteristics of different people that I combine into a character. I tend to think through and try and make characters behave in a natural way. I follow the character and think about what they would do, what decisions they would make.

A new character is like bringing a new human being into your life.

I'm just trying to create characters and tell stories.

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really.

I do just love the characters in sci-fi, but not necessarily the fact that it's sci-fi.

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.

When you get into individual characters certainly there's been things that have been updated .

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.

If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters.

You can never know enough about your characters

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

The people I write are real to me, and basically, they tell me about their environments on a need-to-know basis.

I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.

All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that's what we call 'the plot'.

All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.