About Quote by Michael Hirst

You can't write a character more brilliant than yourself. It's just not physically possible.

— Anthony McCarten

In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to…

— Alan Lightman

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

— Evelyn Waugh

Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'd like to think that what my style of writing is, is an attempt not so much to judge the characters that I'm writing…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I've always scribbled, and I still do it. I've written numerous scripts for films for which I think I'd be perfect as the complex,…

— Romola Garai

I think it's possible for anybody to write what they want to write - superheroes, historical, period drama, 'Game Of Thrones' - it's just…

— Lenny Henry

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world…

— Pankaj Mishra

What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being…

— Eudora Welty

“Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel; in order to write their characters with the truest feeling possible.…

— Lori Lifsey

When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on…

— Chris Lilley

Writing is much more satisfying on a certain level than acting ever was. Because you're not interpreting someone else's original idea, you can come…

— Michael Beck