Characters Become Quotes
- What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch. — Jennifer Beals
- The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself. — Norman Mailer
- Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy. — Judy Blume
- I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters… — Meg Tilly
- You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of them,… — Cassandra Clare
- A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people… — Hayden Schlossberg
- Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory. — Edmund White