Characters Quotes

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As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works… — Mindy Kaling
I love playing different characters all the time, so I'm concentrating on doing other stuff. — Monica Keena
I look for characters who are emotionally driven. — Stacy Keach
I love accents; I would love to find more characters with a variety of vocal intonations. It creates a character. It's like you're singing a… — Stana Katic
I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason. — Tom Kenny
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that. — Markus Zusak
I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in… — Markus Zusak
I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17. — Sara Zarr
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward. — Sara Zarr
I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters… — Zhang Ziyi
Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in… — John Hodgman
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories. — Maureen Corrigan
If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you donâ€™t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you,… — Joel Spolsky
My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other… — Will Self
Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them… — Katherine Paterson
The way my books are structured, everyone was together, then they all went their separate ways and the story deltas out like that, and now… — George R. R. Martin
Thereâ€™s an old writing rule that says â€˜Donâ€™t have two character names start with the same letterâ€™, but I knew at the beginning that I… — George R. R. Martin
However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be… — Jonathan Lethem
I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll… — Dave Gibbons

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