Ann Brashares Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers expand them in ways I don't think of and take them to places I can't go.

  Ann Brashares

  Believe, Writing, Character

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Jan 30, 2013

• I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

  Ann Brashares

  Writing, Character, Comedy

• Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

  Ann Brashares

  Writing, Character, Age

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Jan 25, 2013

• Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

  Ann Brashares

  Character, Age, Fleeting

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Oct 06, 2011

• Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

  Ann Brashares

  Moving, Character, Strange

• Gestating characters feels something like the mental equivalent of gestating a baby. In both cases, to create them you lose yourself. Or at least you reshape yourself to encompass them.

  Ann Brashares

  Baby, Character, Losing Yourself

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