Abandoned Quote by Bryce Dallas Howard

All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.

— Nancy Friday

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

You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it,…

— Iain Banks

I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.

— Susan Choi

I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible.

— John Irving

I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.

— Quentin Tarantino

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

— James Merrill

I've felt like I had to fight for fully realized characters with complexities or even start writing or producing myself.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have…

— Haruki Murakami

There's an arc to an action sequence, and you need to come out the other end knowing your character better, and maybe the story…

— David Leitch

I find it really difficult to even articulate things that I've done in the past. I express myself through the characters that I play,…

— Guy Pearce

If you can walk into a set and feel the reality of it, then immediately you're not having to work to bring yourself into…

— Jerome Flynn