“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
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
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
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
“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
“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 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
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
“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
The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
You can use the fun of the genre, but I also really wanted to come at it from the point of view… — Adrian Hodges Copy Share Image
Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish… — Craig Shaw Gardner Copy Share Image
Because the world of this film begins and ends in the imagination of Tim Burton, you're not seeing a movie that's been… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
THE ABULON DANCE is an intricate and fast-paced novel of political intrigue and clashing alien cultures. The characterizations are rich, detailed, and… — Robin Wayne Bailey Copy Share Image
The requirements for illustrating an eight-page story are as different from that of an ensemble-cast mini-series as they are different from a… — Stuart Immonen Copy Share Image
I'm very disturbed at the picture that was painted by Senator Ted Kennedy that Samuel Alito is not a man of his… — Tom Coburn Copy Share Image
Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful,… — Andreas Schleicher Copy Share Image
“Samantha sometimes found Miles absurd and, increasingly, dull. Every now and then, though, she enjoyed his pomposity in precisely the same spirit… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather… — Joe Fafard Copy Share Image
“You are the wolf that howls and bites. i am the mustang that nuzzles the hand People know they can work with… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“In any friendship or partnership, there is always one that shines just a little bit brighter than the other. He doesn’t mean… — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
“Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“An important feature of good characterization in a novel is that the characters are dimensionalized and are not all of one piece.… — Joseph Telushkin Copy Share Image
Our characterization of collective folly is that sound judgment is not feasible when there is forced or false agreement in groups. We… — Alan Briskin Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, especially when I'm writing in first person, I don't think about the characterization, or how they are going to… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“I know now that a writer cannot afford to give in to feelings of rage, disgust, or contempt. Did you answer someone… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book:… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
![“I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots so by the time I got to the last one I could anticipate what was happening too easily. But her characterizations are amazing.” quote by Stephen Dobyns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eb6/stephen-dobyns-13599_anticipate_i-think-i-made-a-mistake-with-jane-auste_3185180.jpg)
![“I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic…” quote by Roman Payne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9ee/roman-payne-1959_advice-for-writers_i-ran-across-an-excerpt-today-in-english_2690369.jpg)