Earnest Quote by George Saunders

I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.

— Matt Lauria

I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.

— Kathryn Bigelow

I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom…

— Gen Urobuchi

People tend to think I'm a lot more earnest than I am.

— Charlie Brooker

I weave in and out of Ethel. I don't ever want to be so corny to the point of saying, like, 'I have a…

— Ethel Cain

When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.

— Jack Vance

“I know now that a writer cannot afford to give in to feelings of rage, disgust, or contempt. Did you answer someone in a…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...

— Tony Goldwyn

I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject.

— Keith Crown

Often my characters have some kind of idealism or grand belief that they're pursuing.

— Joshuah Bearman

It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces…

— Nora Ephron

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

— Oscar Wilde