Character Development Quotes

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it.

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development.

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.