Characters Quotes

2913 quotes by 2044 authors

Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their… — George Parsons Lathrop
Fantasy stories will always be popular, as there are always readers who are willing to escape, freely, to the worlds that the authors create, and… — Jason Ellis
The writer must always leave room for the characters to grow and change. If you move your characters from plot point to plot point, like… — Richard North Patterson
You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine… — Michelangelo Antonioni
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when… — Thomas Perry
Your life will have chapters, complete with crazy characters, villains and a plot you can't even imagine as you sit here today. It's a lot… — Sharyn Alfonsi
There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters. — Tara Strong
I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people… — Tara Strong
If you watch the show and the characters don't look at each other while they're talking, the actors probably aren't getting along. — Victoria Pratt
When your charactersÂ areÂ really living they tell you what they do. — Andrea Arnold
Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point. — Michael Zaslow
I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and… — Sarah Zettel
I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are… — Sarah Zettel
Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most… — Horace Bushnell
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves. — Timothy West
I write my own stories. I like telling stories to little children. I think the good thing about stories is they carry you to another… — Georgie Henley
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want… — James Gunn
All the Disney lead male characters always have this kind of John Davidson kind of look to them. They all look like the same guy,… — Mike Judge
You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the charactersâ€“and the only way to overcome these obstacles… — John Dufresne
I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole body of myth… — John Boorman

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