Aimee Carter Quotes

For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters.

It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work, from a certain point in time they come alive and start contradicting the author as well.

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.

I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

I'm more interested in character than events. I've observed that about myself as a writer. I find events, even the most dramatic sort, not to be such fertile ground.

The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.

My stories are character driven.

I'm about my characters.

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

I know the relationships, and I already know my characters and how I'm going to reveal my characters to my readers - how I'm going to feed them information about that character. That stuff doesn't have to be in my outline.

It was really fun to start writing movies because you could actually take characters whose voice you enjoy writing in and have actual things happen to them for more than five minutes. It was really fun to thread it together.

Scripts that make characters a two-sentence description, I'm not interested in.

It always comes down to script and characters.

For 'The Bestseller'... there was hardly any research, but I had to give each person a quirk and develop their stories so that it would relate to who they are.

When it comes to a character, I make sure that it adds to the plot.

Often what happens with the writing is that you know where you want to start and you know where you want to end, but the journey is never quite what you predict because the characters take on a life on their own.

To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.

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

As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!

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