Characters Quotes

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I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the… — Beth Richardson Gutcheon
The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change. — Terry Brooks
And it's only the beginning of a new era of exceptional Star Wars storytelling; next year we'll release our first standalone movie based on these… — Bob Iger
We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut… — Katharine Hepburn
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt
Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is… — Allan Bloom
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere. — Jeanette Winterson
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any… — Thomas Carlyle
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our… — Thomas Carlyle
I don't think there is anything wrong with a man who wants to give credit to the Lord, but I don't think the team with… — Billy Graham
I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to… — Fergie
I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by… — Andre Gide
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes,… — George Orwell
To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never… — Margot Asquith
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers. — Nicholas Sparks
I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides,… — Agatha Christie
Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires,… — Gilbert Highet
Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the… — William S. Burroughs
Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters. — John Stuart Mill
Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a… — Mark Burnett

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