Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usually set in big cities. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
A lot of the characters I've played before are heroic or invincible in some ways and not tuned into fear and anxiety… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
Sometimes your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time. — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
A lot of time, the characters I've played in the past kind of come out in me in situations when it's very… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her… — Hannah Murray Copy Share Image
I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them. — Mike White Copy Share Image
Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm not particularly fond of playing villains. I do want to be a working actor, and I've had to look at what… — Sharlto Copley Copy Share Image
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends,… — Dorian Missick Copy Share Image
I don't play comedy as comedy. That would be the biggest trap. I think about the characters and their situations. Then you… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. But for me, I just need… — Adam Shankman Copy Share Image
I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer. — John Logan Copy Share Image
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform. — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
I choose grey characters, as I enjoy playing a human character. I don't shy away from showing the shortcomings of my characters. — Ashish Sharma Copy Share Image
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
“Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
I honestly go back and forth in my head about using advanced and innovative technologies for creating my characters. There's something more… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
We generally pretend to be something to survive in a society. So the characters I play, I want them to be wholesome… — Vikrant Massey Copy Share Image
How it works for me is that a scene comes to mind, usually a scene between the hero and heroine, that depicts… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
I'd say Rob Reiner's 'When Harry Met Sally' is my all-time favorite. It made me realize there's a way of telling a… — Tim Story Copy Share Image
I just write the characters the way I see them. And maybe that's because I'm surrounded by the most amazing men,from my… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
To have a song work for the movie, it can't just be written apart and shoved in. It's got to come out… — John Hughes Copy Share Image
For me, there is a stigma attached to playing beautiful parts. They are often empty characters whom the action happens around. I'm… — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
I didn't want to take the DC universe, put it in a box, shake the box and pour it out. I wanted… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible… — Laura Harring Copy Share Image
I think I have so much more to accomplish in this world of acting. There are many different types of characters I… — Dilshad Vadsaria Copy Share Image
Certainly, your characters - whether they are superheroes are not - should have foibles. They should have problems; they should have things… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I often talk with other actors about that time when you've just finished a job, because I think you do take on… — Ben Barnes Copy Share Image
'Something Borrowed' is looking like a romantic comedy, but it's a comedy. It shines as a comedy; it's definitely not just about… — Ashley Williams Copy Share Image
