Characters Quotes

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Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of… — Brendan Gleeson
I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a stereotype or a… — Lynn Flewelling
A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from the… — Lynn Flewelling
With Amaryllis in Blueberry, Christina Meldrum has woven a beautifully layered, intensely emotional story, with unforgettable characters whose voices will remain with you long after… — Michelle Richmond
Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her… — Christopher Castellani
Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary. But in the… — Ethan Gilsdorf
Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confound… — David Bezmozgis
I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team… — Robert Kirkman
I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you… — Christopher Nolan
We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors of literature happily… — Harold Bloom
So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more… — Heather Matarazzo
I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in… — Randy Harrison
My cats I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters. — Evanna Lynch
[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as… — V. S. Pritchett
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play… — Edward Hoagland
In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain… — Hippolyte Taine
I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really… — Alan Dean Foster
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,… — Ben Okri
At about the age of seven â€¦ I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct… — Northrop Frye

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