Character Quote by Robert Holdstock Download Open image “All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.” — Robert Holdstock ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Elements Inspirational Personal experience Personal experiences Writing
Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had. — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I try to be really, really specific, because each character is really an individual and you have to find out what makes them unique. — Rachelle Lefevre Copy Share Image
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
“She can sniff it as she can sniff the pungency of the earth where it hides little treasures for the table; or the remains… — Robert Holdstock Copy Share Image
“A hundred years ago they'd have burned you as a witch…" "But I'm not a witch." "I don't suppose any of them were.” — Robert Holdstock Copy Share Image
“Have I told you about Christ?" "Ghost-born-man-walking-on-water-telling-stories-dead-on-tree.” — Robert Holdstock Copy Share Image
“So are you telling me…" he composed his thoughts. "Are you telling me that if you told the last story again, and changed the… — Robert Holdstock Copy Share Image
“Pragmatism is nothing without imagination; and imagination is wasted without pragmatism” — Robert Holdstock Copy Share Image
“But stories are fragile. Like people's lives. It only takes a word out of place to change them forever. If you hear a lovely… — Robert Holdstock Copy Share Image
“I really didn't mean to steal it." Mr. Williams shook his head. He scratched at his chin nervously. "Why not? That's what they're there… — Robert Holdstock Copy Share Image
“if you don't first accept the gift as it is—if you change what you hear, or change what you learn—doesn't that make it weak… — Robert Holdstock Copy Share Image
“To each their own. Skills used unselfishly make for co-operation.” — Robert Holdstock 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
