The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know wh…

'I have this thing for generating character-oriented plots, where you look at a character and say 'What's the worst thing I could do to this guy?' I've found t…

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.