Characters Quotes
2913 quotes by 2044 authors
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In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches of France and…
— Margot Livesey
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In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity that reading these…
— Margot Livesey
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The great thing was that as soon as Aidan and I met we clicked, we instantly knew we were going to get along and the…
— Dean O'Gorman
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This is a landmark work in the history of African American studies and American intellectual history. Writing with verve, Jackson brings to life a large…
— Werner Sollors
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There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own names…
— Max Shulman
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It's fun making new skills for new characters.
— Masahiro Sakurai
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I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.
— Shigesato Itoi
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My purpose is to create a mirror for the reader to see themselves, to create a light for people to see themselves in the characters,…
— Kadir Nelson
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Anne Barton is a delightful new voice in historical romance! Once She Was Tempted is a charming read, with characters who are easy to love--a…
— Tessa Dare
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A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.
— Cinda Williams Chima
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The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can…
— Tim Wynne-Jones
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It’s the ability to bring events and characters to a resolution that draws me to writing, especially writing for children. I don’t want to ever…
— Tim Wynne-Jones
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Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world…
— Susan Patron
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I tried to photograph the mysterious, true and magical soul of popular Spain in all its passion, love, humor, tenderness, rage, pain, in all its…
— Cristina Garcia Rodero
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The characters write the plot. Their natures do.
— Norman Rush
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Cliché openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I don’t know any of the characters…
— Kristin Nelson
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With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant. A…
— Skip Horack
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Yes, I can play younger than my age. But I can play characters older than I am, too. I'm not an actor who can just…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
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People want the tragedy. They need things to go wrong, they need the tension. In my characters there’s a core of trust and love that…
— Joss Whedon
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