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A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have… — Matthew Barney
Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my… — Terry Brooks
Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given… — Alan Dean Foster
What I enjoy most are those times when I get an idea and it just flows - the words coming so fast that I'm scribbling… — Leah Cypess
I do not allow fan-fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan-fiction with my characters. I advise my readers… — Anne Rice
My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very… — Jacques Audiard
I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident… — John Kricfalusi
My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than… — Joan Miro
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre. — Jackie Collins
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take… — Richard Russo
What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real. — Spike Lee
My characters are not plastic. — Karen Kingsbury
The goal is to be both disciplined and loose, so that the writing does not turn into a task or a chore. To leave myself… — Pete Hamill
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when… — Thomas Perry
I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I… — Douglas Sirk
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again. — Anne Tyler
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving… — Anne Tyler
I definitely try to play a common man in my roles so people can identify with my characters, but the truth of the matter is… — Zach Braff
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal — Irwin Shaw
Ive never really played everyday people. Ive played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters — Sandrine Bonnaire
My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to… — August Wilson
I like to hear and smell the countryside, the land that my characters inhabit. I don’t want these characters to step off the page, I… — Peter Matthiessen
When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the… — John Phillips

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