Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The thing I'm writing now, I have various characters, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this couple dies. And they… — Sandra Dallas Copy Share Image
People either think Hodor is a very easy character to play or a very difficult one; there's no in between. But it's… — Kristian Nairn Copy Share Image
'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
“However imperfect our conception of virtue, still let us cling to it; for a moment’s forgetfulness exposes us to all the malignant… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
I've been lucky that even when I was younger, just because of my look or whatever, I was afforded the opportunity or… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
One of the things that bugs me about the Western Literary Tradition is that the conventions of narrative in particular seem to… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
But now, I think I have found a corner, a groove of what kind of stories I want to be part of… — Amit Sadh Copy Share Image
I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and… — Gucci Mane Copy Share Image
Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
The difference of the English and Irish character is nowhere more plainly discerned than in their respective kitchens. With the former, this… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
This movie [ Buried] is strange, because it's such an extraordinary situation, both as a character and as an actor. Both of… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
I choose jobs quite selfishly. I do them for me and the exploration you get to go on with a character... seeing… — Elaine Cassidy Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
“Noble morality! and consistent with the cautious prudence of a little soul that cannot extend its views beyond the present minute division… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain,… — Cristina Garcia Rodero Copy Share Image
The anger that you see expressed out there in Los Angeles, in my district this evening, is a righteous anger, and it's… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
“Darwin proposed that creatures like us who, by their nature, are riven by strong emotional conflicts, and who have also the intelligence… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
“A spirit of license makes a man refuse to commit himself to any standards. The right time is the way he sets… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Anytime you have a female protagonist, it's going to turn into some feminist angle, and it's not a conscious thing on my… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the… — Sam Rayburn Copy Share Image
Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living,… — John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Copy Share Image
Years ago I was going to play Chet Baker in another movie and I really felt drawn to that character and the… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
Perhaps I am better prepared to create a certain amount of integrity in the character because I know so much about the… — Phil Morris Copy Share Image
Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The only reason I'm ever in character as 'Larry The Cable Guy' is because that's what I'm hired to do. In my… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If I speak with a character’s voice it is because that character’s become so much part of me that … I think… — André Brink Copy Share Image
There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable… — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over… — Genevieve Bujold Copy Share Image
It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Nah. Hero, for sure. Think about it. In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
If you just open your dictionary, "morality" is the sense that separates good from evil. And if you really want to see… — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image