When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Working on 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' I had endless arguments, like the studio saying, 'You can't have a main character that's got no… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about,… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
“Trial Is Part of the Journey For a moment, think back about your favorite fairy tale. In that story the main character… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“Around the tenth time reading some of these books to your kids, you begin to develop some really strong opinions and questions… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
“It was like picking up a book and reading the things the main character did and said and his description and thinking… — Vin Packer Copy Share Image
“The main character, Gene Moore, is shown how much of his identity is wrapped up in his career and potential in that… — Gary Moore Copy Share Image
The only way to change the world is to change the main character of our story - the one we believe that… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“From start to finish, this movie is obviously about God. He is the main character. How is it possible that we live… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I would love to play a main character and then play different characters as well. I would want for it to be… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Any show that kind of relish the damage of its main character without really investigating what that damage does, where it's from… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader [as well… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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