One thing about beginning writers is that they don't really always know their own strengths and weaknesses - you might think you're… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
“In any friendship or partnership, there is always one that shines just a little bit brighter than the other. He doesn’t mean… — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
Instead of saying, ah, I don't have the money, just embrace it and do what we can do. And the scenes that… — George Tillman, Jr Copy Share Image
“He was too many things at once - a boy, a man, and everything in between - and the differing parts of… — Stephen R. Donaldson Copy Share Image
I get letters from adults saying that they love the books because they are more in-depth with characterization than the comics. The… — Lisa Yee Copy Share Image
Our characterization of collective folly is that sound judgment is not feasible when there is forced or false agreement in groups. We… — Alan Briskin 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
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
Karl Rove described Obama as "the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini, and making snide comments… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
Something that has always attracted me to even taking on the occupation of actor is the idea that I could be lucky… — Lake Bell 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
“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
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
“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
“Mackay had just failed to tip the coat-check girl and was now blinking and working his arms into a too-small trench coat;… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
“She wore a black pantsuit with a white silk shirt that had an almost metallic sheen to it. He wondered whom she… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
I think 'Two Towers' is a completely distinct film from 'Fellowship of the Ring' or 'Return of the King.' I think that… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
A lot of people characterize women as more cautious. I don't think that's an inappropriate characterization, but that's not a natural thing… — Abigail Tarttelin Copy Share Image
It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful,… — Andreas Schleicher Copy Share Image
“Samantha sometimes found Miles absurd and, increasingly, dull. Every now and then, though, she enjoyed his pomposity in precisely the same spirit… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
I'm very disturbed at the picture that was painted by Senator Ted Kennedy that Samuel Alito is not a man of his… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The requirements for illustrating an eight-page story are as different from that of an ensemble-cast mini-series as they are different from a… — Stuart Immonen Copy Share Image
THE ABULON DANCE is an intricate and fast-paced novel of political intrigue and clashing alien cultures. The characterizations are rich, detailed, and… — Robin Wayne Bailey Copy Share Image
Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish… — Craig Shaw Gardner Copy Share Image
Because the world of this film begins and ends in the imagination of Tim Burton, you're not seeing a movie that's been… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
You can use the fun of the genre, but I also really wanted to come at it from the point of view… — Adrian Hodges Copy Share Image
The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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