Juliet Marillier's Quotes
Born: 1948-07-27
Profession: Writer
Nation: New Zealander
Biography of Juliet Marillier
As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.
Tags: Behavior, Fascinated, HumanEach of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something about herself and at the same time makes an impact on other people's lives.
Tags: Difficult, Personal, TimeFirst person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world quite intimately. So it suits a story focused on one character's personal journey. However, first person shuts out insights into other characters.
Tags: Character, Her, PersonalI've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.
Tags: Child, Loved, SmallMy advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.
Tags: Advice, Big, BookThere are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I can't really analyze how I do it, but I am sure of one thing. To write convincing characters, you must possess the ability to think yourself into someone else's skin.
Tags: Help, Someone, YourselfThird person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can create a more complex structure with various story threads running parallel.
Tags: Between, Hear, Story