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Characters Quotes by E. M. Forster
- The test of a round character is whether it is capable of surprising in a convincing way. If it never surprises it is flat. Flat…
- Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.
- Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity…
- 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…
- For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the…
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- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will… — Chinua Achebe
- I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. — Margaret Atwood
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the… — Paul Auster
- If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with… — Richard Bach
- I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible. — Kevin Bacon
- I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much… — Amy Adams
- I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters. — Christian Bale