Character Quote by Alan Furst Download Open image “Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.” — Alan Furst ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Characters Characters Tell Don Tell Tell Write Write Writing
Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access. — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond… — Rosamunde Pilcher Copy Share Image
The reader has information about the characters that the characters themselves don't have. We all have our secret sides. Even I come to understand… — Jaume Cabre Copy Share Image
“Things that only a writer would understand—you’re writing a character—you tell that character who she or he is and they stop you and make… — Lisa Marbly-Warir Copy Share Image
All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Writing from a character is really fun - sometimes you can be more honest through somebody else's perspective. — Willy Mason Copy Share Image
That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you telling them. — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too… — Jessica Cutler Copy Share Image
And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
“It was dawn by the time the detective showed up; tired and weary. Tired because he’d been called from his bed before dawn, weary… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“Luftmenschen were also eternal students, lost souls, young people who spent their lives arguing politics in cafés and drifting through the student communities of… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“There's a French saying, ‘Où le Dieu a vous semé, il faut savoir fleurir.’ Let's see, ‘Wherever God has planted you, you must know… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.” — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“when at last they’d had to admit to themselves that they’d made all the love they could, had been a last meal. Like” — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
