Bigger Quote by Robert Aldrich

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've…

— Neil Jordan

If you have a great characters, you can always have your character do nothing or do something stupid, and people will still follow them,…

— Drew Magary

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

— Andrea Arnold

We have to keep company with supposedly bad characters if we are to survive and not succumb to mental atrophy. People of good character,…

— Thomas Bernhard

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters…

— Paul Kane

I am not into this old-school way of doing things, where you kill characters, and you bring them back, and then you kill them…

— James Gunn

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 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

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

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

— Brian Boyd

“Let integrity fashion your character in all walks of life. As it will shape the person you will become”

— Simone Da Costa