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Character Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
- Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see…
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so…
- When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
- A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character…
- Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
- Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who…
- When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only…
- One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.
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- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
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- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson