Y'lan Noel Quotes

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.

I am not an analytical writer. Once I flesh out my characters and decide on the elements of my plot, the story unfolds in my head almost as though it was a movie reel.

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.

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

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

After a while, the character sort of took over.

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take me on a journey between those points without having a fixed plan.

Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.

Each play I write has its own unique origin story.

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

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.

When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.

For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters.

In film, because you know where the ending is, characters can change, but in television, you substitute revelation for change, and that can be hard to pull off.

I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.

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

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

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.

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.

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

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.