I need it all: in-depth characterization, fantastic/warped world building, a plot that could out-race Secretariat, and a 'voice.' I need to hear… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
“You are the wolf that howls and bites. i am the mustang that nuzzles the hand People know they can work with… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
“What truly matters isn’t your feelings or even those of your characters—it’s the emotional experience of your audience.” — Will Raywood Copy Share Image
This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about… — Daniel Keys Moran Copy Share Image
He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character. — David Corbett Copy Share Image
I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“But the truth is that every setting can hold value. Every location can add something to the scene. Characterization can be made… — Angela Ackerman Copy Share Image
Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that… — John Logan Copy Share Image
I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Shamefulness is always a huge part of my characterizations. I like protagonists that reveal, either through "honesty" in their various thought processes… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, especially when I'm writing in first person, I don't think about the characterization, or how they are going to… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I have never gone into a picture without first studying my characterization from all angles. I make a study of the fellow's… — William Powell Copy Share Image
“Further, my characterization of a loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn’t introspect, doesn’t exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“I know now that a writer cannot afford to give in to feelings of rage, disgust, or contempt. Did you answer someone… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built.… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“An important feature of good characterization in a novel is that the characters are dimensionalized and are not all of one piece.… — Joseph Telushkin Copy Share Image
“Raven has always been nice, in the same way vanilla ice cream is nice but you’d rather have cookie dough.” — Jessica Goodman Copy Share Image
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation. — Leon Surmelian Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do. — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's going into her characterization and,… — Anna Torv Copy Share Image
“In general, the best antagonists in fiction represent the protagonist’s Shadow. By confronting and ultimately defeating the antagonist, the hero reintegrates these… — Will Raywood Copy Share Image
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