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->''...it's not that I necessarily wouldn't draw a cartoon like ''Henry'' or ''ComicStrip/SnuffySmith'' or ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'', ''[[ComicStrip/Blondie1930 Blondie]]'', it's that I ''can't''. If I drew ''Blondie'', for example, it would still come out looking like ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''; Daisy would get rabies and bite Dagwood, who'd go insane and have Mr. Dithers stuffed - whatever that means.''
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->''"Where does the story end? I don't know, ask the characters. They're the ones driving the plot and they refuse to stop and ask for directions no matter how lost the plot gets. See? It's not MY fault my characters have taken on a life of their own. That'll be a great comeback to a one star review: 'the voices in my head told me to write that'."
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->''"Where does the story end? I don't know, ask the characters. They're the ones driving the plot and they refuse to stop and ask for directions no matter how lost the plot gets. See? It's not MY fault my characters have taken on a life of their own. That'll be a great comeback to a one star review: 'the voices in my head told me to write that'."
-->-- '''J.P. Beaubien''', ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'', "Plotting a Story"
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->'''Waffle House Millionaire:''' I've done something. I'm not sure it's a good thing yet.\\
'''A Self Called 'Nowhere':''' You've done something?\\
'''Waffle House Millionaire:''' I.... created? No, created is the wrong term. I feel like it was already there, waiting for me to give it life. I put a thing on paper, [[OffTheRails and I'm bringing it down on that fat fuck like the wrath of god]].
-->-- ''Fanfic/OldManHenderson'', regarding the "creation" of the man himself.
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HoYay between enemies'''
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-->--'''[=Benedict_SC=]''', on [[Literature/CordycepsTooCleverForTheirOwnGood CORDYCEPS]] [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/6178036/chapters/14154868 CORDYCEPS]]
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->''...it's not that I necessarily wouldn't draw a cartoon like ''Henry'' or ''ComicStrip/SnuffySmith'' or ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'', it's that I ''can't''. If I drew ''Blondie'', for example, it would still come out looking like ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''; Daisy would get rabies and bite Dagwood, who'd go insane and have Mr. Dithers stuffed - whatever that means.''
-->--'''Gary Larson'''
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->''For months I had been absolutely barren of ideas, completly unable to work up anything sellable. Then the man Conan seemed suddenly to grow up in my mind without much labour on my part. Immediately a stream of stories flowed off my pen -- or rather, of my typewriter -- almost wihtout effort on my part. I did not seem to be creating, but rather relating events that had ocurred. Episode crowded on episode so fast I could scarecely keep up with them. For weeks I did nothing but write of the adventures of Conan. The character took complete posession of my mind and crowded out everything else in the way of story-writing. When I deliberately tried to write something else in the way of story-writing. When I deliberately tried to write something else, I couldn't do it. I do not attempt to explain this by esoteric or occult means, but the facts remain.''
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-->--'''Creator/RobertEHoward''', on a letter to Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith on December 14 1933.
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->''"That's the weird thing about writing character driven stories. When one really gets into the heads of one's characters, it becomes apparent that they have minds of their own. I'm assuming not literally, but hell, maybe they do on some quantum level. Perhaps Moperville truly exists, and this comic is merely my interpretation."''
-->--'''Dan Shive''', in TheRant for ''WebComic/ElGoonishShive'' [[note]]"Or maybe the grape juice I had with dinner fermented and I'm a little tipsy while writing this. It would explain the pink elephant tap dancing in the corner."[[/note]] [[https://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1275]]
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->''And sometimes, just sometimes, you *think* you're writing a love interest but 1/5 through the first draft your protagonist grabs your shoulders to tell you that the plans have changed and you just have to deal with that.''
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->''I wrote this for nano, and the entire plot grew out of an attempt to reverse-engineer an explanation for a standalone snippet of fiction inspired by one of those KID visual novels. The constraints of the scenario produced a plot almost without my having to deliberately plot it, and the events of the story follow inexorably from the conditions and characters involved. The plot happened without my having a lot of choice in the matter.''
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->''I think one of the most wild things as a writer is the sensation that you’re not actually directing your characters– they’re sort of directing themselves, and you’re scrambling around attempting to copy down whatever it was that they just did, but they don’t wait for you to finish copying. They just keep walking and talking and moving around and existing of their own volition and at some point you look up and you’re like “WHOA OKAY EVERYBODY BACK THE FUCK UP WHERE ARE WE”''\\
''It’s kind of like trying to write sheet music for an orchestra while it’s playing''\\
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''It’s kind of like trying to write sheet music for an orchestra while it’s playing''\\
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->''At this point, ten years in, these characters sort of "bounce" off one another according to some dimly recognized set of mystic laws. Writing the strip has always felt more like something we're observing, some natural process, than anything we're doing ourselves. That's what I tell myself when I see a strip like [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/04/04/old-friends this]], and try desperately to imagine what might have informed it.''
-->---'''Tycho Brahe/Jerry Holkins''', ''Webcomic/PennyArcade vol. 6: The Halls Below''
-->---'''Tycho Brahe/Jerry Holkins''', ''Webcomic/PennyArcade vol. 6: The Halls Below''
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->''Don't blame me. I'm but a lowly instrument to the muses.''
-->--'''Suzanne''', ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack''
-->--'''Suzanne''', ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack''
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->''I have never demanded of a set of characters that they do things my way. On the contrary, I want them to do things their way. In some instances, the outcome is what I visualized. In most, however, it’s something I never expected.''
-->-- '''Creator/StephenKing''', ''[[ http://biblioteka.teatr-obraz.ru/files/file/English_cinema/Stephen_King_On_Writing.pdf On Writing]]''
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->''That's how writing works the vast majority of the time. You give these characters life and then they tell you what they want to do.''
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-->-- '''Bill Watterson''', describing the storyline in which [[MesACrowd Calvin duplicates himself]], ''The CalvinAndHobbes Tenth Anniversary Book''
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->'''Nostalgia Critic:''' You're the [[AuthorAvatar author]]! Tell me what to do!\\
'''Doug Walker:''' You're the character! Tell me what to write!
-->-- ''WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee''
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-->-- '''LewisCarroll''', in the preface to SylvieAndBruno.
->''I do ''not'' hold myself responsible for ''any'' of the opinions expressed by the characters in my book.''
-->-- '''LewisCarroll''', in the preface to SylvieAndBruno.
