Character Quote by Margaret Mahy Download Open image “In a way, the characters often do take over.” — Margaret Mahy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Way
I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back. — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
Since I don't outline my books very much, I feel like sometimes I don't have a choice in what the characters do; they just… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in. — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
Do you know how writers often say the characters take over... But that is more or less what it always feels like to me,… — Wes Anderson Copy Share Image
A lot of writers will take a character at the beginning of a story. And that character will stay the same all the way… — Adrian Lester Copy Share Image
I think that you always have something left, that you take something of the character with you. — Sean Bean Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Characters do change over time; there are surprises, role reversals, and things like that. — Paul Dini Copy Share Image
I think if characters change too much, it's unrealistic; their whole fabric of who they are as a person doesn't just disappear. — Theodore Melfi Copy Share Image
I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters. — Gilbert Hernandez Copy Share Image
When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“All right," said Eden. "After all, we've got to hide somewhere. And even if they move on a bit faster than we can, they'll… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions,… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“I don't know everything I feel, but I do know this. You mustn't ever want anyone but me, Big Science. If you look at… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“Stamp, your name is to be Laura. I'm sharing my name with you. I'm putting my power into you and you must do my… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Reading is very creative - it's not just a passive thing. I write a story; it goes out into the world; somebody reads it… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
“Fattening!” said Troy, looking at Tabitha’s round face and plump arms. “If I don’t mind being fat, I don’t see why other people should… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Ellis's understanding of himself and the world around him certainly develops because of his adventures, and part of that development comes through recognizing other… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can ake over as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it… — Margaret Mahy 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
