My favorite characters are those who start off in a box--few options, societal constraints--but who transcend their circumstances and find that they are capable of becoming people they did not expect to be. Geraldine Brooks
I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn’t change. I have the same challenges every day. Dan Brown
Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. E.L. Doctorow
...A book is a journey by which a main character, or several characters, ultimately reach a reckoning with themselves. The plot is just the car driving them down the road on that journey. Dennis Lehane
