Books Quote by Claire Wingfield

“Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.”

— Vincent H. O'Neil

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how…

— Elizabeth George

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really…

— Zooey Deschanel

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them…

— Mitch Albom

I've always been interesting in characters that challenge people and who are not always that easy to like.

— Julian McMahon

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

— Mike Birbiglia

There's no particular role that comes to mind that I'd like to take on, but for me, it's about playing interesting characters and not…

— Michelle Dockery

I think the most interesting characters are those in which you can see both sides.

— Sebastian Koch

People who act against their own best interests are interesting characters.

— Paul Schrader

I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like,…

— Stephen Graham

People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I keep telling you, you don't pay enough attention to the minor characters. A novel should be like a street full of strangers, where…

— Irène Némirovsky