characters

Nelson Algen

New blog post by Vagabond Heart – discussions in this thread, please --- I was cracking on with my stupidly self-imposed lockdown challenge to read The Complete Works of Shakespeare. I’d met a few Henry’s now, and although I knew one of them was meant to be rousing stuff, I had no clue which...

“Your characters are like children. You give birth to these children, but you have to send them into the world and then they have to live their own lives. Yiyun Li

“As the characters become alive to me, there are things they refuse to do, so I have to let them tell me where they’re going.” Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found. Elizabeth Bowen

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel. Harper Lee