Behave Quote by Aron Ralston

All of my characters, I feel, have some essence of who I am in them.

— Gayle Rankin

I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal…

— Bret Easton Ellis

Life is not what you see, but what you've projected. It's not what you've felt, but what you've decided. It's not what you've experienced,…

— Notes From The Universe

When I am searching for a character, I leave myself open, as does a medium. And I think that sometimes you can be inhabited…

— Peter Sellers

“I accepted all this counsel politely, with a glassy smile and a glaring sense of unreality. Many adults seemed to interpret this numbness as…

— Donna Tartt

I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use…

— Elizabeth Strout

Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes…

— Soren Kierkegaard

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people…

— Maeve Binchy

“Each of our lives’ is a separate and precious journey. No matter how happy, sad, painful, tragic or confusing it may by, it is…

— José N. Harris

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and…

— Hallie Ephron

I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality. I often imagine how people…

— Joe Dunthorne