Character Quote by Emily Giffin Download Open image “I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.” — Emily Giffin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Flawed People Real Real people Real women Try Trying Women Words Writing
I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority. — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority. — Callie Khouri Copy Share Image
I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person.… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
The characters I've always been drawn to are real and flawed. That's not how women have always been portrayed. — Kiernan Shipka Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre. — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
People often tell me, "You write such great women." I don't think about it, I just write characters as rigorously and as truthfully as… — Donald Margulies Copy Share Image
Whether consciously or unconsciously, I felt myself drawn to writing a female character who was pretty flawed and not very virtuous or wonderful or… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I think exercise is critical to my writing and an essential way to recharge. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“Well, anyway… it’s over,” I say, realizing that those two words lump me right in with a hoard of naive women who say it’s… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life... — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“It occurs to me that she is not unique--that all women compare lives. We are aware of whose husband works more, who helps more… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
“I desperately want to feel that way again. To be in a relationship that I’m not trying to script or water down. It’s about… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
