Best My Characters Sayings
247 My Characters quotes by 202 unique authors
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I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I…
— Gen Urobuchi
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I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books.
— Tina St. John
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In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing…
— R A Salvatore
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I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.
— Jeffrey Combs
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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
— Nadine Gordimer
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You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's…
— Frank Miller
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I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can…
— Maeve Binchy
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I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, and I've had to live that as…
— Nina Dobrev
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My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of…
— Carole Bouquet
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If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
— Marguerite Young
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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
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In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun…
— Todd Solondz
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The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of…
— Eric Roberts
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I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that…
— Michelangelo Antonioni
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My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
— Jeanette Winterson
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I know nothing about pistols and revolvers, which is why I usually kill off my characters with a blunt instrument or better with poisons. Besides,…
— Agatha Christie
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I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
— Jean M. Auel
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Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.
— Julian Barnes
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I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I always had a lot of confidence in my work and the unique flavor I like to bring to my characters, but you know I'm…
— Nick Offerman
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One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front…
— Eugene Levy
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
— Tamora Pierce
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I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world…
— Tom Perrotta
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I'm sort of a reverse Method actor. In my personal life, I become my characters. After 'One Tree Hill', I started dressing in Converse and…
— Ashley Rickards
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One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.
— Ron Rash
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