We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things because we’re curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. - Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling. - Joyce Rachelle

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? - Jerry Seinfeld

The only characters I ever don’t like are the ones that leave no impression on me. And I don’t write characters that leave no impression on me. - Lauren DeStefano

The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit… archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character. - Kristan Higgins

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. - Joss Whedon

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! - Anton Chekhov

People - and characters - are made up of their past experiences. When crafting a character, one of the most important aspects we consider is her past. - Sky Fairwin

One brain’s blueprint may promote joy more readily than most; in another, pessimism reigns. Whether happiness infuses or eludes a person depends, in part, on the DNA he has chanced to receive. - Thomas Lewis

A lone protagonist never receives as great a reaction as one with a well-developed supporting cast. - Susan Spann

You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there are stout fighters, mighty magic-users, wily thieves, and courageous clerics who will make their mark in the magical lands of D&D adventure. You however, are above even the greatest of these, for as DM you are to become the Shaper of the Cosmos. It is you who will give form and content to all the universe. You will breathe life into the stillness, giving meaning and purpose to all the actions which are to follow. - Gary Gygax

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway

It all begins with drawing yourself and your reader into what I call the Fictive Bubble. Think of it like a large soap bubble. That bubble is your story world and everything that happens there, regardless of genre. Your first objective is to pull a reader into it, where they will take an incredible journey with your characters. Your second objective is to keep the reader there, in that bubble. - Ted Dekker

Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing. - Melinda Haynes

Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and lived it and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Who I am as a person heavily influences what I write, and I draw from everything I can find–whether it be LDS, Buddhist, Islamic, or Atheist. It’s all jumbled up there in that head of mine, and comes out in different characters who are seeking different things. - Brandon Sanderson