“How could this be? - I thought. - Characterization is my strength!” — Jaclyn Dolamore Copy Share Image
I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect. — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy. — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue. — Jack Woodford Copy Share Image
“No, he was silver and amber, starlings and deep, deep purple skies of the night.” — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
Steve [King] has been incredibly supportive. He's also really good about getting back to me when I have questions about plot or… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations.… — Jacqueline Susann Copy Share Image
I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they're ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
The only thing that surprises me is the characterization of teachers as lazy and greedy. Only someone with very little understanding of… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
I need it all: in-depth characterization, fantastic/warped world building, a plot that could out-race Secretariat, and a 'voice.' I need to hear… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
I can see a movie and believe the story and characterization and stay proud of it. It doesn't change. Even if it's… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'True Detective' is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“the characterization of actions allegedly prior to any narrative form being imposed upon them will always turn out to be the presentation… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make the case that the church can indeed, from within its own resources, move out of a false, and… — James Alison Copy Share Image
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The craft of writing is all the stuff that you can learn through school; go to workshops and read books. Learn characterization,… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“The way she looks right now, you have to think about multiple car pile-ups. Imagine two bloodmobiles colliding head on. The way… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“And it was true that if you categorized people by which Disney character they were, then Jonah would always be Bambi. Motherless,… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
The 250-page outline for American Tabloid. The books are so dense. They're so complex, you cannot write like I write off the… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
With Batman&Robin, the fourth entry in the recent Batman movie series, the profitable franchise appears poised to take a nosedive. This film,… — James Berardinelli Copy Share Image
Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much, He is a great… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of thisfaculty as a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“One of the commonest and most generally accepted delusions is that every man can be qualified in some particular way -- said… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Most of these stories are on the tragic side. But the reader must not suppose that the incidents I have narrated were… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There are three types of actions: purposeful, habitual, and gratuitous. Characters, to be immediate and apprehensible, must be presented by all three.'… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“I liked it when things went together like that. Not just timing things like the chop/ flick/ knock-stopping, but space things, too.… — Adam Levin Copy Share Image
Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role. — George C. Scott Copy Share Image
An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about… — Daniel Keys Moran Copy Share Image
He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“What truly matters isn’t your feelings or even those of your characters—it’s the emotional experience of your audience.” — Will Raywood Copy Share Image
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