Characters Quotes

2913 quotes by 1993 authors

What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters. — Harmony Korine
Comics are carried by characters. If a character is well-created, the comic becomes a hit. — Kazuo Koike
I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I… — Douglas Sirk
Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows have… — Kris Radish
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative… — Hilma Wolitzer
The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I donâ€™t know yet. — Gail Godwin
All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills. — James N. Frey
A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was losing its innocence.… — Ami McKay
Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the… — Richard Louv
I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters… — Sebastian Horsley
To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you… — Anatole Broyard
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do… — Paul Gallico
The Glittering World is a stunning phantasmagoria drawn from the world just beneath the surface, aswarm with great and memorable characters and a plot that… — Keith Donohue
The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in,… — Octavia Butler
How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and… — V.S. Naipaul
It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once… — Anne Tyler
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again. — Anne Tyler
I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that… — Anne Tyler
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving… — Anne Tyler
As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy. — Elizabeth Berg

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