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Characters Quotes by Ian Mcewan
- My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors. I wanted characters…
- There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any…
- Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.
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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