Characters & Viewpoint Quotes

“Four basic factors are present in every story, with varying degrees of emphasis: milieu, idea, character, and event.”
― Orson Scott Card, Characters & Viewpoint

“If there is no awe, there is no audience.”
― Orson Scott Card, Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint

“readers tend to like a character who is at least superficially like themselves. But they quickly lose interest unless this particular character is somehow out of the ordinary. The character may wear the mask of the common man, but underneath his true face must always be the face of the hero.”
― Orson Scott Card, Elements of Fiction Writing - Characters & Viewpoint