G. Willow Wilson Quotes

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero.

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.

Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.

I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.

I'm very good at plot.

The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.

My forte is the plotting. You sit down, and you work out a plot.

It's amazing how far you can get into a plot before you figure out what you're doing.

I didn't know how to write comics. I had to teach myself.

Find your own way into your story. Find your own way into your game.

I know now why I stopped writing short stories. It was at the point when I recognised how difficult they were.

For me, the best moments in storytelling are the ones where I feel I'm discovering something.

I loved writing 'Lost.' It was like a never-ending opera, in a way.

I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.

I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so there's always pressure. What else can you come up with?

Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.

Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or how the characters work. I'm trying to make the best story I possibly can.

Having written for film and television, I had little interest in turning 'The Good Father' into a Hollywood thriller. I was writing a novel, and novels demand that the writer goes deeper, both emotionally and thematically.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.