Characters Quotes

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I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to… — Joe Hill
School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I… — Craig Ferguson
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.… — Ann Patchett
Do you ever get moods when life seems absolutely meaningless? It's like a badly-constructed story, with all sorts of characters moving in and out who… — P.G. Wodehouse
I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose. — Stephen King
There is no such thing as a perfect person in this world. We all must become the main characters or the stars of our lives.… — Goo Hye Sun
Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldnâ€™t rely on… — Veronica Roth
Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. — Arthur Conan Doyle
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
Once I start work on a project, I donâ€™t stop and I donâ€™t slow down unless I absolutely have to. If I donâ€™t write every… — Stephen King
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure… — Orson F. Whitney
I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out. — Jennifer Donnelly
Arenâ€™t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandoraâ€™s box is a story parents read… — Gena Showalter
To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to… — Etgar Keret
His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether weâ€™re actually motivated by altruism… — John Green
This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide… — David Levithan
I'm off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this… — Stephen Colbert
I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's… — James Cameron
The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those creative enchantments, not… — Marina Warner

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