Believable Quote by Mark Haddon Download Open image “The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.” — Mark Haddon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Believable Character Conform Creating Way
In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your… — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way. — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established — Confucius Copy Share Image
One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to characters, and this was true for my feature-writing career as well, where there is a tension between rule-breaking… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“So often these days she seemed to hover between worlds, none of them wholly real.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
And I know I can do this because I went to London on my own, and because I solved the mystery…and I was brave… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“when you describe something by using a word for something that it isn’t. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor. I” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.” — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Places remained and time flowed through them like wind through the grass. Right now. This was the future turning into the past. One thing… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“And it was strange because he was calling, "Christopher. . . ? Christopher. . . ?" and I could see my name written out as he was saying it. Often I can see what someone is saying written out like it is being printed on a computer screen, especially if they are in another room. But this was not on… — Mark Haddon Copy Share
A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It's a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go off on a tangent or if you give them extraneous information that doesn't serve the story. You really have to tell a tight story. You have to give them humor and suspense and believable characters. All… — Rick Riordan Copy Share
Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
'The Avengers' made it more believable that I could have been a major in the U.S. Army. — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Why am I an atheist? The short answer is that I cannot accept any of the alternatives. I simply don't find them believable. — Barbara Smoker Copy Share Image
I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and… — Patricia Richardson Copy Share Image
An idea has no worth at all without believable characters to implement it; a plot without characters is like a tennis court without players.… — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
I'm straight, but the character was too important to me to muddle his world with my private life. As a nobody, I got away… — Gale Harold Copy Share Image
