Characters Quotes

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In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! — Anton Chekhov
I'm not going to let people who work in the United States Department of Justice have their characters be assailed without any basis. — Eric Holder
The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave myself… — Pete Hamill
Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may. — Anne Lamott
I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this. — James Ellroy
Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of… — Robert McKee
In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling. — Nikolai Leskov
All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to… — Allan Massie
One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth. As someone who… — Niles Eldredge
The earliest and most primitive known members of every order already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence… — George Gaylord Simpson
Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the comment… — Tony Attwood
I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones… — Emily Giffin
The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child… — Rosemary Wells
Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey… — Laura Miller
Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't… — Paul Haggis
A story is built on characters and reasons. — Steven Amsterdam
To play one of the main characters in it, it's not the kind of thing you don't do. Oh, I'd rather not play Pippin in… — Billy Boyd
When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is… — Atom Egoyan
There are good characters and bad characters. — Matt Stone
Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as thankless as… — John Naughton

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