Characters Quotes

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I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than… — Etgar Keret
Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that… — Lisa Kleypas
I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated. — Nicole Krauss
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web. — Nicole Krauss
I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself to imagine what… — Nicole Krauss
I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or… — Rachel Kushner
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain… — Rachel Kushner
In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think… — Callie Khouri
I can talk endlessly about characters, or why someone did this or that, and what that dynamic and interaction is. I really love it, and… — Charlie Kaufman
I like the opportunity to play characters who have these dark sides but make the audience empathize with them. You want them to think there… — Julian McMahon
I tend to get cast as a certain type of quiet, almost introverted person who's strong on the inside, but the characters are so very… — Kelly Macdonald
When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the… — Kiefer Sutherland
For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters. — Rashida Jones
Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens. — Alex Kapranos
If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the… — Angela Kinsey
But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day. — David E. Kelley
When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you. — David E. Kelley
Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters. — Chuck Leavell

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