Characters Quotes

2913 quotes by 1993 authors

Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you,… — Jennifer Weiner
Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what… — Jennifer Weiner
I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these… — Ayn Rand
I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess,… — Herman Wouk
There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom,… — Anthony Burgess
I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness… — Mary Oliver
I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My charactersâ€”I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters… — Georges Simenon
Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his… — Michel Faber
No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
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 happened… — Haruki Murakami
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western… — Carlos Fuentes
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a… — Abigail Adams
I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see… — Gustave Flaubert
I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone elseâ€™s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind… — Rachel Vincent
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away. — Kurt Vonnegut
Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon — Garrison Keillor
In order to get the things I want, it helps me to pretend Iâ€™m a figure in a daytime drama, a schemer. Soap opera characters… — David Sedaris
Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same. — Joanne Harris
I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends. Even if they are fictional… — Kate Atkinson
It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to live. — John Fowles

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