Characters Quotes

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In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard… — Jessica Cutler
There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I can't really analyze… — Juliet Marillier
While I talked about comparisons between Cap and Cable, there's also a parallel with Tony Stark. Iron Man thinks of himself as a 'futurist,' Cable… — Jeph Loeb
The characters are telling you the story. Iâ€™m not telling you the story, theyâ€™re going to do it. If I do it right, you will… — George V. Higgins
People like the comedy more when they care about the characters. — Judd Apatow
When I first started you would pitch a story because without a good story, you didn't really have a film. Later, once sequels started to… — Henry Jenkins
To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation — Harvey Keitel
WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath,"… — Ambrose Bierce
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Young men, of course, don't want to be guided by old back numbers, but at the same time I know that in my own case… — Robert Baden-Powell
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices — Irwin Shaw
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal — Irwin Shaw
Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters — Sandrine Bonnaire
People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with… — Diablo Cody
You could only draw conclusions about my personal sexual politics if you proceed from the assumption that I was presenting the characters as the way… — Steven Moffat
The culture in which you parent, mentor, or educate boys exhorts them to be individualistic and group-oriented at once, but does not give them a… — Michael Gurian
The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his brother… — B. H. Roberts
I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...) — Alan Lee
God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the… — A B Simpson

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