Character Quote by Stewart O'Nan Download Open image “When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.” — Stewart O'Nan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Character Walking Mask Mask Character Through Try Try Mask Walking Walking World World Writing
When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world. When I'm not at my… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
“In our society most of us wear protective masks (psychological ones) of various kinds, and for various reasons. Very often, the end result is… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
When I do a mask, I do try to put a lot of character and a lot of expression into the sculpt. — Rick Baker Copy Share Image
I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind… — Felicity Kendal Copy Share Image
In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience.… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
When I take on a character, it's a sacrifice. There's something that you give up every time. I want to become these characters, and… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
The way that I live is in between the dual experiences of the tragedy mask and the comedy mask. I feel that I write… — Mike O'Malley Copy Share Image
The masks were more of a representation of what you wanted to present as yourself. — Shawn Crahan Copy Share Image
When writing 'Behind the Mask,' I opened up on every level. Hopefully, even the more knowledgeable fans, who really know me, will be surprised… — Rey Mysterio Copy Share Image
The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love? — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading into one's… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
I always squirm when I read what's called 'creative nonfiction,' and the writer is lobbing gobs of emotion and language at the world, hoping… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Local teenagers killed in a car crash is a suburban legend, a stock plot line. — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
“He could no longer be that Ed Larsen, but, through a lack of imagination or just sheer exhaustion, he couldn't come up with a… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
“They should." "Should be like a wood bee," she said. It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure of the… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
“Come then, come with us, out into the night. Come now, America the lovesick, America the timid, the blessed, the educated, come stalk the… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
“Often, as she leafed through the sticky, plastic-coated pages, spotting herself with a frizzy perm or wearing a loud, printed blouse, she was struck… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman 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