Character Quote by Tea Obreht Download Open image “I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.” — Tea Obreht ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Influence
I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character. — Tabitha King Copy Share Image
With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move.… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity. — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much. — Lasse Hallstrom Copy Share Image
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level. — Victor Garber Copy Share Image
I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“I felt my voice had fallen through and through me, and I couldn't summon it back to tell him or myself anything at all.” — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly. — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“People become very upset,' Gavo tells me, 'when they find out they are going to die' . . . 'They behave very strangely,' he… — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
“By the time I got to high school, I had learned to be more cautious about revealing my dreams. I was reading—and therefore writing—adventure… — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“To me, the persistence of my grandfather's rituals meant that he was unchanged, running on discipline and continuance and stoicism. I didn't notice, and… — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, it's about the reader's attachment to and belief in the magical elements that make or break magical realism. — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“I started to feel that nagging sense of shame again, an acute awareness of my own inability to share in his [my grandfather's] optimism.” — Téa Obreht Copy Share Image
I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young. — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it. — Tea Obreht 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
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