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Characters Quotes by Elmore Leonard
- I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please myself.…
- I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to…
- My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.
More Characters Quotes
- 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