Characters Quotes

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Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works.… — Criss Jami
Thatâ€™s the problem with fiction â€” or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until… — Charles McGrath
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate… — George Scialabba
Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters. — Lawrence Millman
I'd say that any character or setting can be given a bit of an otherworldly sheen and be the better for it. The one thing… — Charles de Lint
My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into… — Charles de Lint
I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them. — Charles de Lint
I think a good writer is a mix of confidence (sure that what they're writing is going to appeal to their readers) and uncertainty (what… — Charles de Lint
Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or… — Charles de Lint
The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up… — Charles de Lint
Children are illuminated text-books, breviaries of doctrine, living bodies of divinity, open always and inviting their elders to peruse the characters inscribed on the lovely… — Amos Bronson Alcott
Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect… — Wilfrid Sheed
Many of the Bible characters fell just in the things in which they were thought to be strongest. Moses failed in his humility, Abraham in… — Dwight L. Moody
But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters… — E. M. Forster
Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go… — George R. R. Martin
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living that they are… — William Hazlitt
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with… — Bill Vaughan
The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the… — John Dos Passos
You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them — Carlton Cuse
My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me. — Donal Logue

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