Writing Character Development Quotes

#1. A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.

Jerry Hall

#2. Let me say it again:
the present moment is all you ever have.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. Perfection should generally be avoided in a character. Real people, such as your readers, aren't flawless and chances are they are not going to be able to fully identify with a character who is.

Craig Hart

#4. I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change ... that's a whole political debate that I don't want to get into. I want to talk about the frequency of extreme weather situations, which is not political.

Andrew Cuomo

#6. That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

Matt Lauria

#7. Each time I discovered a potential link between one character's story and another's, several more connections would reveal themselves, like a beautiful, complex web spinning itself.

Richard Scarsbrook

#8. Character development is vital when writing a strong story. Weak characters make for weak stories.

Beem Weeks

#9. Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.

Norman Macleod

#10. In real life people do occasionally act out of character or do things we wouldn't normally expect them to do. In fiction, there should be a good reason for a character to do something outside of the ordinary.

Craig Hart

#11. No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012!

Stella Atrium

#13. With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen
if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us.

Stephen King

#14. You must learn to be three people at once: writer, character, and reader.

Nancy Kress

#15. TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.

Connie Nielsen

#16. While every chapter should have goals to further the plot and delve our readers deeper into our world, there must be one goal above all else: Emotional Impact.

A.J. Flowers

#17. What I was is not what I am. Two men, identical faces, but different eyes. In what they have seen, in what they reflect upon the world.

Steven Erikson

#18. To hear one talk is better than to see one.

George MacDonald

#19. I don't really have a drive toward being a director at all. Not that I wouldn't rule it out, but I just don't think my instincts lie necessarily in a very visual way. But I am very interested in storytelling, narrative and character development, so writing is something that I absolutely want to do.

Rose McIver

#20. Pace, like everything else in writing, involves a trade-off. If you're not offering the reader a lot of action to keep her interested, you must offer something else in its stead. Slow pace is ideal for complex character development, detailed description, and nuances of style.

Nancy Kress

#21. Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

Charlotte Eriksson

#22. The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of punctuation, in the plot, in the most minor character who crosses the page. It's all your voice.

Victor LaValle