Kerry Bishe Quotes

In a way, the characters often do take over.

Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do.

I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.

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.

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

Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

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.

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.

I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them tell me the story. Sometimes I would love to have a happy ending, and it doesn't happen because the character or the story leads me in another direction.

The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.

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

The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.

It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.

Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.

I'd like to think I'm not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I've written the final page and switched the computer off.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

We seek to craft characters who inspire empathy: characters our audience will care for and, as a result, will care about what happens to them and thus will share the journey we have charted. A story, after all, is the character's journey.

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

My main problem with fiction is that once my characters get moving, you just have to follow them along and get out of the way of the story, but sometimes they pull me in too many directions, and I need to focus.

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me, if that makes any sense.

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.

The emotions of the actors are better when they understand the chronological factors that are adding to the story.