Fictional Characters On Writing Quotes

“For four days straights, I sit at my typewriter in my bedroom. Twenty of my typed pages, full of slashes and red-circled edits, become thirty-one in thick Strathmore white.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Fictions are realities we don't think of, that are happening to people we know nothing about.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“For the next fortnight Anne writhed or reveled, according to the mood, in her literary pursuits. Now she would be jubilant over a brilliant idea, now despairing because some contrary character would not behave properly. Diana could not understand this.
'Make them do as you want them to,' she said.
'I can't,' mourned Anne. 'Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island