S44E6 – During Act II: The Interior Plot
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller
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S42E2 – Worldbuilding: Make it Personal
Your worldbuilding is unique, yes, but your characters are what will really sell your story. – Moriah Richards
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S41E9 – Writing Emotions: Confusion
Costello: And you don’t know the fellows’ names?
Abbott: Well I should.
Costello: Well then who’s on first?
Abbott: Yes.
Costello: I mean the fellow’s name.
Abbott: Who.
Costello: The guy on first.
Abbott: Who.
Costello: The first baseman.
Abbott: Who.
Costello: The guy playing…
Abbott: Who is on first! – Abbott and Costello
S41E7 – Writing Emotions: Guilty and Apologetic
“You still blush too easily when confronted,” Jasnah noted.
“I’m sorry.”
“And apologize too easily as well.”
“I’m… uh, indignant?”
– The Stormlight Archive
S36E3 – Dark Psychology: Adverse Childhood Experiences
People with happy families don’t become spies. A bad childhood is the perfect background for covert ops. You don’t trust anyone, you’re used to getting smacked around, and you never get homesick. – Michael Westen, Burn Notice
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S35E5 – When Characters Make Bad Decisions
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them ― in order that the reader may see what they are made of. ― Kurt Vonnegut
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S20E4 – Myth Four: Characters Control the Author
I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book. – Ann Patchett
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S18E3 – Time for a Casting Change
My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play in it, for good or evil, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many. – J.R.R. Tolkien
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