Ann Aguirre Quotes

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

Ignore all advice about writing. Leave your blood on every page. Every page!

Fans always say they laughed and they cried while reading my books. And I tell them that I laughed and cried while writing them.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

I write characters and stories that move me, and I write from the heart.

I love to write. It's my first love.

You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.

Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.

If I don't fall in love with my characters, I cannot shoot.

I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply emotional.

Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am really there, so strong is my feeling for my subject. On occasion, I have been so moved by the events I have been describing that I have felt like crying.

Writing the 'Crossfire' series is deeply personal for me, and I love the whole process of it.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

When you're actually inside the experience of writing something, in some ways, you're just writing. Ultimately, you fall in love with the characters, and you get excited about the story, and you're sitting there in your sweatpants or pajamas, and you do get a little lost in it.

If a reader comes across a story that makes them cry, you can be sure that the writer felt every single thing that makes the reader cry.

As I was writing 'Insidious 3' I started to fall in love with the characters and the story. I became very possessive of it and I didn't want someone else to do it.

I identify in some measure with each of my characters.

There's some of me in all my characters.