Apocalyptic Quote by Laurie Holden

When forced to survive in an apocalyptic world, there are some characters that embrace their higher selves with some emerging as natural born leaders,…

— Laurie Holden

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to…

— Nancy Kress

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.

— Ryan Reynolds

An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A lot of my characters are born out of a small grain in a person that I heighten and take to that next level.…

— Lauren Lapkus

As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What's interesting is…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

“Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate humankind to…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“In those moments of moving through the streets with people who share one's beliefs comes the rare and magical possibility of a kind of…

— Rebecca Solnit

Courage, strength and wisdom well up in those who consciously take on everything as the protagonist and person responsible for achieving their goals.

— Senora Roy

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even…

— Robert Aldrich

What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and…

— Charlie Cox

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to…

— Lafcadio Hearn