Respect the way characters may change once they’ve got 50 pages of life in them.
– Rose Tremain
Tag: respect
Quotable 322
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
– Tom Stoppard
Quotable 313
Respect your characters, even the minor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story.
– Sarah Waters
Quotable 168
When I sit down in order to write, sometimes it’s there; sometimes it’s not. But that doesn’t bother me anymore. I tell my students there is such a thing as “writer’s block,” and they should respect it. You shouldn’t write through it. It’s blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven’t got it right now.
– Toni Morrison