Characters Quotes

2913 quotes by 2044 authors

Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page. — Thomas Pynchon
Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy… — George Jones
Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible… — Thomas Jefferson
Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would… — Thomas Paine
Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is… — Ray Bradbury
Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the… — Uta Hagen
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write… — Garry Trudeau
I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in this kind of… — Charles M. Schulz
For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell… — Emmanuelle Beart
I don't see my old films, but I think of the characters I played as friends, like the women I meet in my life who… — Emmanuelle Beart
In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but war takes away… — Thucydides
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his… — Robert Fitzgerald
IFÂ YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITEÂ AÂ SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILLÂ BEÂ WRITING GREAT DRAMA. — David Mamet
The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. — Cornelia Funke
Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling… — Walter Jon Williams
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels… — Meg Rosoff
In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters. — Sidney Lumet
There is a technical, literary term for those who mistake the opinions and beliefs of characters in a novel for those of the author. The… — Larry Niven
Its theme-- the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters-- was perhaps presumptuously large, but I make no apology… — Evelyn Waugh

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