I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe…

What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly,…

— Thomas Perry

And one of the things that's interesting about how they're doing the show is that the audience almost knows more than the characters do…

— Alex Graves

“But see, that's the thing about movies. Nothing is left to the imagination. You read a book, and you see a picture of the…

— Laurie Viera Rigler

What's actually amazing is that, after a couple of years of living with characters and writing characters and talking about characters, as we sit…

— Jeff Pinkner

I'm a very visual thinker, so the characters are running through my head, doing what they're doing when I'm writing them. And there'll be…

— Paul Dini

Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers…

— Sloane Crosley

Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a…

— Madeleine Stowe

Part of what makes a language 'alive' is its constant evolution. I would hate to think Britain would ever emulate France, where they actually…

— J. K. Rowling

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

— Aristotle

I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote 'The Rose,' and through…

— Amanda McBroom

By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who…

— Pablo Picasso

Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.

— Bela Lugosi

Ancient eyes had stared at me, filled with ancient grief. And something more. Something so alien and unexpected that I'd almost burst into tears.…

— Karen Marie Moning

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions… Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself…

— Lord Chesterfield