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Characters Quotes by Elizabeth Bowen
- I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
- Dialogue in fiction is what characters do to one another.
- What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It must express character.…
- Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis…
- 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…
- 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…
- Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
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- I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. — Margaret Atwood
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- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters. — Christian Bale