Character Quote by Harry Mathews Download Open image “I think situations are more important than plot and character.” — Harry Mathews ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Important Plot Situation Thinking
Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development. — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is. — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
I detest the word plot. I never, never think of plot. I think only and solely of character. Give me the characters; I'll tell… — Stirling Silliphant Copy Share Image
My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name. — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy. — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later. — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done. — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
“She was disgusted with herself...and the disgust permanently cured her of suicide. Her piddling life did not deserve dramatic remedies.” — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old. — Harry Mathews 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
