Characters Quotes

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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each… — Walter Dean Myers
The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not… — Vikram Seth
To purposely concoct older characters of a sunny disposition would be as much of a solecism as deliberately fabricating arrhythmic blacks, spendthrift Jews, slacker Japanese… — Will Self
Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways. — Viggo Mortensen
No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of… — Roger Rosenblatt
We really lived, ate, drank and slept Batman - ideas, characters and stories. — Jerry Robinson
Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself.… — Jerry Robinson
I own all the characters I created, thanks to the Writers Guild, so nobody can do anything without me. The way it works is: If… — Sherwood Schwartz
Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the… — Edgar Ramirez
I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed. — David Nevins
Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher
One thing George R. R. Martin does is surprising things to main characters. But he says so himself. — Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and… — George Washington
The syndicates take the strip and sell it to newspapers and split the income with the cartoonists. Syndicates are essentially agents. Now, can you imagine… — Bill Watterson
Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren Beatty once told… — Alec Baldwin
Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There… — George Bernard Shaw
Kowalski was always right, and never afraid. He never wondered, he never doubted. His ego was very secure. And he had the kind of brutal… — Marlon Brando
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. — Henry David Thoreau
I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due… — Samuel Johnson
He exists in the public mind as bits and pieces of his characters-Butch Cassidy's charm, Ben Quick's machismo, Cool Hand Luke's defiance, Harper's irony, Hud's… — Maureen Dowd

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