Characters Quotes

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But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those… — Truman Capote
...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take… — Italo Calvino
We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full. — Georges Simenon
Start dating someone who is funny, someone who has what in high school you called a "really great sense of humor" and what now your… — Lorrie Moore
I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your… — Jean Webster
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. Itâ€™s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the… — Anne Tyler
Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us… — Richard Wright
Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read… — Charlotte Bronte
Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier… — Adam Johnson
A novel is not an allegory.... It is the sensual experience of another world. If you don't enter that world, hold your breath with the… — Azar Nafisi
Don't equate activity with efficiency. You are paying your key people to see the big picture. Don't let them get bogged down in a lot… — Harvey Mackay
I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make… — Isak Dinesen
We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If… — Junot Diaz
My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate… — Robert E. Howard
But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting… — Dodie Smith
Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel… — Brandon Sanderson
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important… — Maeve Binchy
I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up. — Ann Brashares
In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart,… — Eudora Welty

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