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
S42E2 - Worldbuilding: Make it Personal
Your worldbuilding is unique, yes, but your characters are what will really sell your story. - Moriah Richards
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
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
S22E7 - Fog and Flame: Character Development
I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose. - Stephen King
S22E6 - K/D Ratio: Character Voice
Character is plot, plot is character. - F Scott Fitzgerald
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
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
S15E8 - Pet the Dog: Moments to Humanize Characters
I must be cruel, only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. - William Shakespeare
S16E6 - Throw in an Obstacle
Whatever these forces are that make people do dumb things, they are powerful, they are often invisible, and they lurk even in the best of environments. - Ed Catmull
S14E8 - Artists with Travis Micheal
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. - Hector Berlioz
S13E9 - All Characters Feel the Same
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
S10E8 - Character Archetypes
The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit… archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character. - Kristan Higgins
S10E7 - Developing Character Strengths
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. - Joss Whedon
S10E6 - Developing Character Flaws
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! - Anton Chekhov
S10E5 - Character History: Nurture
People - and characters - are made up of their past experiences. When crafting a character, one of the most important aspects we consider is her past. - Sky Fairwin
S10E4 - Character History: Nature
One brain’s blueprint may promote joy more readily than most; in another, pessimism reigns. Whether happiness infuses or eludes a person depends, in part, on the DNA he has chanced to receive. - Thomas Lewis