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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
E. L. Doctorow
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I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
Maggie Stiefvater
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I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.
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Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.


Miguel de Icaza
Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved.
Thorne Smith
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Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader wants to listen to, and the voice has to be a match for the emotion you want the story to carry.
Will Hobbs
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I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.
Ewan McGregor
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One of the interesting things about the Ozarks is you just about don't have street crime. It's strictly between people who know each other. It really isn't indiscriminate; it's kind of between themselves.
Daniel Woodrell
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One of the interesting things about being a female police officer in the '60s is they really didn't have opportunities to do any serious police work - they filed, and they made coffee, and they were treated like secretaries.
Claire Holt
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I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
Maria Semple
I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?
Anne Enright
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As a lifelong romance reader, it's always satisfying to get to talk to other romance readers!


Melissa Marr
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.


Pat Conroy
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Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know.
Paul Auster
There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense.
Mark Billingham
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It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.
Keira Knightley
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My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.
Laurie Graham