Bits and pieces Quote by Maureen Dowd

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything,…

— Simon Callow

His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's…

— Patrick Warburton

Reading [Judd Apatow] book, about his background, I think there's a great similarity. What gives him the fire to work hard? He worked hard,…

— David Copperfield

When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it…

— Frank Herbert

I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times…

— Alan Jackson

“He read with intensity and was passionately in love with every character, every turn of plot or twist of language. He made the characters…

— Sarah Ockler

With Quentin Tarantino, he makes movies imagining himself as the audience. To be specific and true to what he wants resonates to people who…

— Paul Rust

A good novelist loves all of his characters, he lives in them, even in those who commit or must commit terrible acts.

— Liao Yiwu

For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which…

— James Vance

The legendary yet factual Curtis Wilkie has been the right man in the right place at an uncanny number of extraordinary times.

— Roy Blount, Jr

As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and…

— Anonymous