Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. - Ray BradburyBut how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page? - Shannon Hale

There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we’re just reimagining the same 12 plots over and over again -so what makes people keep watching and listening? It’s all about the character. - Jeremy RennerThe inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique to each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated. - Helen M. Luke

I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I’m able to conceal the information I’m trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about. - Dan Brown

When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn’t want to read just romance. Love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn’t be cut out and restricted to its own fiction. - Rainbow RowellThe thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic…. There’s a certain cringe factor that’s involved with that. - David Lyons

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail. - Charles R SwindollThe secret of being boring is to say everything. - Voltaire

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. - Ludwig WittgensteinPoor Faulkner. Does he really think that big emotions come from big words? - Earnest Hemingway

To be honest, I don’t really have much of an opinion on fanfiction. As long as people aren’t commercially exploiting characters I’ve created, and are doing it for each other, I don’t see that there’s any harm in it. Either way, it’s a good place to write while you’ve still got your training wheels on. - Neil Gaiman

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on. - Louis L’Amour

Snowballing a story into a series to establish yourself as an author can be a smart strategy. But if you try to snowball a weak story, you’ll have a snowball’s chance in hell of success. - Lisa Poisso

At heart, self-publishing is kind of like a bake sale. The end product does not need to resemble the one that comes from a commercial bakery, but it must taste good. No one wants the lumpy, under-baked oatmeal cookies with spinach and alfalfa flavored chips. - D.C. Williams

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion. - Tim Ferriss

Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find writing is hard, it’s because writing is hard. - William Zinsser

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. - Henry Van Dyke

No one is born a writer. You must become a writer. In fact, you never cease becoming, because you never stop learning how to write. Even now, I am becoming a writer. And so are you. - Joe Bunting

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book. - Ann Patchett

Books full of inept dialogue tags get published all the time. Of course they do. Not all published writers are good writers. - Dean Koontz

Don’t write what you know. Write what you love. That’s what will keep you writing. - Chris Humphreys

If people don’t notice your cover or don’t connect with it, the author of the book next to yours will be very grateful. - David Leonhardt

People will forget what you say but they won’t forget how you make them feel. - Maya Angelou

I took a master class with Billy Wilder once and he said that in the first act of a story you put your character up in a tree and the second act you set the tree on fire and then in the third you get him down. - Gary Kurtz