Rose Tremain Quotes

In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.

As the story unfolded, the cast of characters changed to match it.

I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.

I've often said the reader knows every bit as much about Thorne as I do. When I created him for 'Sleepyhead,' I was determined he should be a character who would develop, book by book, change and grow as we all do, and who - crucially - would be unpredictable.

One pleasure of working on a trilogy is watching characters warp and grow over time.

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.

One reason I find all this character growth and narrative swerving so exhilarating is because I never got to do it when I wrote for TV. Our characters needed to remain consistent from week to week.

I like my characters to go through some changes during a story arc.

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them.

Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better or worse people, but by the end of the story they are not the same personalities they were in the beginning. Their change, in its various stages, is called the story's emotional arc.

Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.

In my stories, I think, as I've gotten older, the characters have become stronger and more independent, and more capable of making unconventional decisions.

The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.

Usually when you have a sequel, the character always stays the same and that's true basically of 'Rocky III,' 'IV' and 'V.' He didn't really change.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.

I like a character that is still alive and is necessarily thinking, and either grows or diminishes or whatever.

In 'Hollow City,' I'm taking all the characters out of the lives they've been secure in for years and plunging them into the unknown. That's how you really get to know them.

I think there's something really positive about getting to explore a character for a long time on a TV show and live with that character and live with the choices they make, but it's also really great to step in.

I care more, and I think readers do also, for characters in a state of transformation.

The Duffers like that; they like watching their characters grow.

As you do on any cable series, if they introduce you as the villain, then you better start working towards making him a really good guy, or if they introduce you as a really good guy, then you better start working towards being the villain. Your character has to go somewhere, or else they become very uninteresting.

I build my characters from the day they're born to the first page of the script.

Characters do change over time; there are surprises, role reversals, and things like that.