Characters Quotes

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Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and… — George R. R. Martin
Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstandin g. — Stephen Colbert
Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the… — Sigourney Weaver
Arthuriana has become a genre in itself, more like TV soap opera where people think they know the characters. All that's fair enough, but it… — Michael Moorcock
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters. — Nadine Gordimer
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't… — Patrick Marber
My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught me that music… — Katie Noonan
I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell… — Saint John Chrysostom
Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and… — Elie Wiesel
If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... It's important to care about them. About who they are and what… — Neil Gaiman
I'm very attracted to characters who don't necessarily make it easy to be loved. — Charlize Theron
As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers. — Stephen King
Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy. — Judy Blume
There is a scene in the movie where Astrid and Hiccup fly on Toothless's back toward the island of Berk. The animation is intensely real,… — Craig Ferguson
We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars;… — Robert Kiyosaki
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's… — Frank Miller
Naina is one of the most special films & special characters that I've played in recent times — Deepika Padukone
In writing the new films, Iâ€™ve come to realize that AVATARâ€™s world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became… — James Cameron
My favorite characters are people who think they're normal but they're not. I live in Baltimore, and it's full of people like that. I've also… — John Waters
I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the… — Erica Jong

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