One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live,… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I am not in control of how my characters live their lives, only in writing it down.” — A.H. Browne Copy Share Image
I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
Everyone has different identities and different characters that live within them. — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
I want characters I can live for in a setting that makes me feel like I'm there. — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
“I love when the characters take over and live their own lives. I get to watch and write it all down.” — Anna Adams Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
If I'm honest about the people that I love, then I need my characters to live through the same things that the… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me,… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I live a life very similar to my characters in that I live a full-blown summer fantasy from June to September. I… — Elin Hilderbrand Copy Share Image
I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see every detail of--I'm playing a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I really do believe that people surprise you. And one of the powerful things about novels is that they're about characters, and… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I'd like to think I'm not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I've… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
To me, and I'm sure for other writers, too, characters come back and they relive again, but what about those characters who… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead. — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about… — Neal Pollack Copy Share Image
