Characters Quotes

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I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key - three-scene… — Bobby Cannavale
I really enjoy the writing process because I can do it from my house. I can create these characters and take them in the different… — Ricky Schroder
It's important for little girls to have characters to look up to, and also be entertained by the fantasy parts. There are a lot of… — Phoebe Tonkin
We are bringing in another threat, which is nature itself. I don't really want to get into specifics too much, but I will say that… — Robert Kirkman
In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are… — Aristotle
I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first. — Stephan Pastis
It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be. — Jhumpa Lahiri
The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice, feelings, will, imagination… — Michael Chekhov
All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read… — Stephenie Meyer
Kids are more drawn to animal characters than human. — Brian Jacques
It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can… — Katherine Paterson
Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in… — Raymond Queneau
Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever… — David Foster Wallace
An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players. Daffy… — Chuck Jones
No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much… — Harlan Coben
I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters,… — Ann Beattie
The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong. — Brandon Sanderson
Writing is a vocation and, as in any other calling, a writer should develop his talents for the greater glory of God. Novels should be… — Piers Paul Read
I see the beauty of people and the human soul in the pictures I take. And though the circumstances of some of the people I… — G.M.B. Akash
I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that… — Michelangelo Antonioni

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