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Characters Quotes by Eudora Welty
- Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its…
- A short story is confined to one mood, to which everything in the story pertains. Characters, setting, time, events, are all subject to the mood.…
- The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves,…
- My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the books.…
- Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart,…
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