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 think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built.… — Nancy Kress Copy Share Image
Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's going into her characterization and,… — Anna Torv Copy Share Image
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort… — Brent Weeks 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
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
“Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
One thing about beginning writers is that they don't really always know their own strengths and weaknesses - you might think you're… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I get letters from adults saying that they love the books because they are more in-depth with characterization than the comics. The… — Lisa Yee 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
“Further, my characterization of a loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn’t introspect, doesn’t exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I have never gone into a picture without first studying my characterization from all angles. I make a study of the fellow's… — William Powell Copy Share Image
I think I've learned a lot about how to make movies, and particularly about how to edit movies by thinking about how… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
I don't really enjoy working in TV, to be completely honest, even though it's incredibly lucrative, I'm just terrified of not being… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
Karl Rove described Obama as "the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini, and making snide comments… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do. — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation. — Leon Surmelian Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Instead of saying, ah, I don't have the money, just embrace it and do what we can do. And the scenes that… — George Tillman, Jr Copy Share Image
“In general, the best antagonists in fiction represent the protagonist’s Shadow. By confronting and ultimately defeating the antagonist, the hero reintegrates these… — Will Raywood Copy Share Image
Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that… — John Logan Copy Share Image
“She wore a black pantsuit with a white silk shirt that had an almost metallic sheen to it. He wondered whom she… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
“Mackay had just failed to tip the coat-check girl and was now blinking and working his arms into a too-small trench coat;… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
I will never forget the pleasure and instruction I derived from working with a true master of his art, such as Edward… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
I think 'Two Towers' is a completely distinct film from 'Fellowship of the Ring' or 'Return of the King.' I think that… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
A lot of people characterize women as more cautious. I don't think that's an inappropriate characterization, but that's not a natural thing… — Abigail Tarttelin Copy Share Image
It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
“I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called 'I' and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
