Characters Quotes · Page 77

I want readers turning pages until three o'clock in the morning. I want the themes of books to stick around for a…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series.…

— Jeff Abbott

What we try to do at Disney and through Disney character voices is really maintain the integrity of our classic characters at…

— Jodi Benson

The truth is these characters [of Batman story] evolve, and there's a lot of hands in the supporting of these characters. It's…

— Zack Snyder

In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in…

— Isabel Allende

The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a…

— Kurt Sutter

I've just always loved really good projects. The things that draw me into a new project have very little to do with…

— Jewel Staite

Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the…

— Aimee Carter

With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of…

— Jesmyn Ward

I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

I think you have to be crazy not to want to work on the Joker! I can't think of many characters, heroes…

— Lee Bermejo

One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than…

— Rick Yancey

I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of…

— Andrea Riseborough

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of…

— Thomas Bernhard

I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits and losing their mind. I think…

— Daniel Sharman

I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if…

— Ronny Cox

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism because it is a genre where it is perfectly acceptable for all the…

— Andrew Dominik

I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm…

— Karen Traviss

I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is…

— Ted Naifeh

My objective is that I don't try to do the same thing. I try not to emulate something I've done before. And,…

— Emily Blunt

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity. But…

— Suzanne Brockmann

When you have a script, and you're discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that's a kind…

— Cary Fukunaga

The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were…

— Matthew Ashford

I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we…

— Dan Scanlon

Every actor, I don't care what they say, their roles are a lot more interesting than we are, and at the end…

— Moon Bloodgood

I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and see two guys talking…

— J. B. Smoove