Character Quotes

9624 Character quotes by 4950 unique authors

Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and… — Anne Lamott
Do remember, though, that unless you're a playwright, the result [dialogue] isn't what you want; it's only an element of what you want. Actors embody… — Ursula K. Le Guin
If you're a fiction writer, though, I can tell you how to let people talk through you. Listen. Just be quiet, and listen. Let the… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've shared. I am… — Wright Morris
Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the point… — Richard North Patterson
Even in dialogue, your own style rules your selection. Do not give yourself a blank check of this kind: 'I'll merely reproduce what I think… — Ayn Rand
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. — Sol Stein
I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the story… — John Steinbeck
Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't… — Eudora Welty
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language. — Hilma Wolitzer
A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously. — Albert Camus
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress
Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know. — Tom Clancy
I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with… — Chuck Palahniuk
I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy. — Kirsten Dunst
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants… — Aaron Siskind
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is… — Alexander Hamilton
Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster
So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit? — Rio Ferdinand
He is as tough as anything. You can crack him once, but he won't let it bother him. He's back on his feet in no… — Cristiano Ronaldo

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