Some fantasies should just stay fantasies. The characters…

I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people…

— Julian Casablancas

“Fantasies really ought to stay fantasies-reality only ruins them”

— Deborah Wright

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— Beyonce Featuring Sean Paul

“Me to characters: talk to me people.”

— Buffy Andrews

My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown…

— Elmore Leonard

“Well, I like him. There’s a darkness to him. But does he make it all the way through?” She shrugged. “It’s entirely up to…

— Nancy Holder

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're…

— Greta Gerwig

I always get role models, people from real life who've lived the lives of the characters, and talk it through together, me, them and…

— Tony Scott

My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap…

— Ray Bradbury

Susan Rebecca White has a keen sense for how her characters talk and think. An impressive debut.

— Tom Barbash

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

— Diane Johnson

“Leaders spend time reviewing their mistakes rather than having fantasies over their achievements! They look for every way to do the undone!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to…

— Stanley Hauerwas

“I set my glass down and met his eyes, feeling an overwhelming surge of affection for this man. "That ... makes sense," I said,…

— Christina Lauren

Fashion comes out of the world in which you live, your needs, hopes and fantasies.

— Maurizio Gucci