Characters Quotes

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Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are… — Elizabeth Bowen
Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to… — Elizabeth Bowen
All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience. — Robert Holdstock
It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters. — Stephen King
Plot springs from character... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and… — Anne Lamott
Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've shared. I am… — Wright Morris
Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the point… — Richard North Patterson
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. — Sol Stein
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language. — Hilma Wolitzer
A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously. — Albert Camus
Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings. — Nancy Kress
Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know. — Tom Clancy
What is the subject matter of this apparently very personal world? It has been suggested that these shapes and images are underworld characters, the inhabitants… — Aaron Siskind
So if u shorten words to get what u want in within 140 characters it makes u a twit? — Rio Ferdinand
I've been very lucky. All I wanted was to pay the rent. Then these characters took off and suddenly there were Hulk coffee mugs and… — Stan Lee
The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and… — Charles Dickens
Look well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust. — Matthias B. Tallmadge
Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next. — Nathanael Emmons
As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its… — Mark Twain
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change… — Catherine Drinker Bowen

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