Characters Quotes

2913 quotes by 2044 authors

Susan Rebecca White has a keen sense for how her characters talk and think. An impressive debut. — Tom Barbash
Characters are born from necessity. — Christopher Paolini
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over. — Elizabeth Moon
Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice. — Robert Fripp
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, itâ€™s a gay film. . . .Â I think thatâ€™s really… — Todd Haynes
The dimensions of video game characters, even when they're scanned from real people, are beefed up with exaggerated proportions in games like Def Jam: Fight… — Cliff Bleszinski
With James Reeseâ€™s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Not only… — Matthew Pearl
You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust… — Michael Swanwick
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English… — Michael Swanwick
Most of the big breakthrough technologies/companies seem crazy at first: PCs, the internet, Bitcoin, Airbnb, Uber, 140 characters.. It has to be a radical product.… — Marc Andreessen
Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing… — Colleen McCullough
My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist… — Colleen McCullough
I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and… — August Wilson
Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found. — Elizabeth Bowen
People do not spring forth out of the blue, fully formed â€“ they become themselves slowly, day by day, starting from babyhood. They are the… — Lois Duncan
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of… — Brander Matthews
I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party. — ZoÃ« Heller
Futurists are already predicting the day mankind builds its replacement, Artificial Intelligence. Daniel Wilson shows what might happen when that computer realizes its creators are… — Jack Du Brul
What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real. — Spike Lee
All I want to do is write songs about funny characters I made up. — Wes Borland

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