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His Characters Quotes by Simon Callow
- He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure…
- He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.
More His Characters Quotes
- A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly… — Nelson Algren
- Michael Koryta is that rare author who is at once a compelling story teller and a fantastic writer. From the first sentence… — Lisa Unger
- The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. — Salvatore Quasimodo
- Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while… — Edwin Muir
- A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters… — Albert Camus
- Ask Anthony Hopkins how he makes his characters come to life and he just shrugs. I don't know. If I knew, I… — Larry Eisenberg
- Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable,… — Peter Orner
- To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to… — Anatole Broyard