Characters Quotes

2913 quotes by 1993 authors

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating… — John Green
...along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all… — David Abram
Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave… — Madeleine L'Engle
A comedy isnâ€™t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. — Gary D. Schmidt
My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up. — Dr. Seuss
Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward. — Michael Scott
Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying. — John Green
You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At… — David Grossman
But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page? — Shannon Hale
I'm sorry, Mother. It's just that five days of flying with these characters has made me crawl right to the edge of sanity.' 'I fell… — Bryan Davis
I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasnâ€™t just movies that couldnâ€™t contain the… — Miranda July
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as… — Terence McKenna
I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters. — Lydia Davis
In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become… — Madeleine L'Engle
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when… — Miley Cyrus
Kyle had to give her credit; it took skillâ€”plus no heart and a serious abuse of the English languageâ€” to break up with someone in… — Julie James
Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see — Seth Grahame-Smith

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