Characters Quotes

2913 quotes by 2038 authors

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just… — Ken Burns
I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see… — Patrick Marber
If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place. — Annie Proulx
Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***. — David Mamet
The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters. — Cynthia Ozick
The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself. — Norman Mailer
A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications… — Clifford Irving
Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella, — Ai Weiwei
I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I donâ€™t want these characters to step off the page, I… — Peter Matthiessen
At first, I thought 'this series is going to be all about death and desecration,' but instead became a more complex landscape of human relationships.… — Ralph Steadman
M. J. Putney's writing has always been magical; now that she has turned her hand to the telling of a fantasy tale, it sparkles on… — Elizabeth Haydon
The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all… — Robert Fortune
Put your characters where they are the most interesting. — James D. Macdonald
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content to… — Michael Dirda
Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love! — Christos Gage
The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky… — Jonathan Evison
Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in… — Neal Pollack
It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself. — Michael Ondaatje
I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue. — Ming-Na Wen
That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unlikable,… — Roxane Gay

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