People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters. — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
“Characters run and take you to new places. You just keep hold of their leash.” — P.A. Fielding Copy Share Image
I am someone, who entertains through different characters and not be myself. — Sunil Grover Copy Share Image
I'm not a teacher; I'm not a historian. I'm trying to create a world for my characters. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing. — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
I really don't like to go for the stereotypes. I try to give you characters that you don't know until you get… — Fede Alvarez Copy Share Image
There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“Very few people are able to discount the effect of circumstances upon their own characters.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I always find something in all the characters I play. I fall in love with them a little bit. — Sophie Okonedo Copy Share Image
Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast… — Dan Gilroy Copy Share Image
I say characters who are strong and wrong just have an assuredness about them that you can't even wrap your head around,… — Ego Nwodim Copy Share Image
All the characters I've ever played have really had nothing to do with looks. There's a lot of things that are a… — Sarah Baker Copy Share Image
Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I think that with 'The Vampire Diaries,' you never know what's going to happen, and I don't think the characters necessarily know,… — Kat Graham Copy Share Image
“As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I loved the idea of making history interesting for kids! When Scholastic approached me about 'The 39 Clues', I immediately started going… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
“One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected.… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of… — Warren Leight Copy Share Image
“I want to beat them. Even though I'm not cool, or strong, or just, or beautiful, or cute, or pretty, I want… — Nisio Isin Copy Share Image
“Addicts don't like when you tell them they are all the same. Of course not. Who would? But to me, addicts are… — Oliver Markus Copy Share Image
Developing characters is a collective process, on one hand; it's an individual process on the other. The truth is rarely pure and… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“They say a writer is not a single person, it is a bunch of characters. What I learned from life is that… — Himanshu Chhabra Copy Share Image
“Astrid looked at Lana, now leaning against the window, and Diana, lost in thought, and reminded herself that at times she had… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
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