Characters Quotes

2913 quotes by 1993 authors

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams. — Muriel Spark
You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are… — Jean M. Auel
This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are… — Robertson Davies
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. — Ray Bradbury
My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire. — Jane Austen
and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in… — Franz Kafka
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even… — C.S. Lewis
There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will… — George Eliot
Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect. — Laura Anne Gilman
He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its… — Gustave Flaubert
Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where… — Anne Lamott
Respect your characters, even the Âminor ones. In art, as in life, everyone is the hero of their own particular story; it is worth thinking… — Sarah Waters
What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the… — Gabrielle Zevin
Because it all derived from Superman. I mean, I love all the characters, but Superman is just this perfect human pop-culture distillation of a really… — Grant Morrison
If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals. — Don Roff
You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If thereâ€™s any other message in this to readers, itâ€™s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesnâ€™t make any difference where… — J. Michael Straczynski
The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. — Milan Kundera
In some ways, I donâ€™t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I… — Shannon Hale
If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing… — Don Roff

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