Characters Quotes

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I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know. — Jean M. Auel
When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the… — Martin Amis
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. — Salvatore Quasimodo
I like naming characters. — Roddy Doyle
Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting. — Julian Barnes
Star Trek characters never go shopping. — Douglas Coupland
I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes. — David Fincher
The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction,… — Donna Tartt
The tricky or boastful gods of ancient myths and primitive folk tales are characters of the same kind that turn up in Faulkner or Tennessee… — Northrop Frye
Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It… — Richard Madden
One of the most beautiful things about 'Game of Thrones' is it's told from so many different points of view, and these characters can convince… — Richard Madden
The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters. — Damon Lindelof
One of my complaints with American TV characters is that they all have a particular schtick, a hook. — Kevin McKidd
Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones. — Lurlene McDaniel
In a way, the characters often do take over. — Margaret Mahy
It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly… — Margaret Mahy
There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why… — Margaret Mahy
Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl… — Matthew McGrory
There are great characters on television. — Penelope Ann Miller
I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can… — Rose McGowan

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