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247 My Characters quotes by 202 unique authors
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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll…
— Anne Tyler
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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of…
— John Updike
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The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime,…
— Miranda July
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I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your…
— Jean Webster
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I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the…
— Anne Tyler
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Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier…
— Adam Johnson
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We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. If…
— Junot Diaz
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My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate…
— Robert E. Howard
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We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important…
— Maeve Binchy
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I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.
— Ann Brashares
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I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters…
— Georges Simenon
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My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.
— Jane Austen
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Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where…
— Anne Lamott
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Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it’s not so easy to find something you might be…
— Haruki Murakami
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I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.
— Dr. Seuss
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I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.
— Stephen King
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To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to…
— Etgar Keret
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I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.
— Lian Hearn
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When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to…
— Dana Carvey
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Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.
— Alexia Fast
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I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so…
— Roald Dahl
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I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.
— Catherine Mary Stewart
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The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.
— Paul Auster
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All of my characters are less than perfect.
— Barbara Park
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