Ruth Glick Quotes

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can see into the heart of all your characters. Usually, when there's a writing problem, it's because you aren't doing that.

I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

Especially when I write, I want to get out of people's heads and have them speak and have them get dressed and have them go to work.

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

You can start imagining all kinds of things characters would feel, but you have to have a sense of whether those imaginings might be right.

I get to use fiction as a way to work out my thinking and to delight readers in the process. I can't think of any deal that's better for me, and I'm always so grateful that readers have indulged me as I argue with myself in my stories.

I love all the characters I write.

I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

The power with which you can create a character is tremendous and probably more satisfying than actually being the person.

There's a huge distance between who I am as a regular person and what takes place in my fiction.

I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

I don't ever really know where I get my characters from.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

For me, inspiration isn't a sort of spark which lights the fire of the story. It's more like a thread, one of many, which you can tease out of a story once it's written, if you feel so inclined.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.