Character Quote by Thomas Lennon Download Open image “I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.” — Thomas Lennon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Come up Good character Stories Teach Thinking
I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different. — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart. — Uri Shulevitz Copy Share Image
I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind. — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters. — James Dashner Copy Share Image
We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story… — Aaron Ehasz Copy Share Image
But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last… — Garret Dillahunt Copy Share Image
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too… — Jessica Cutler Copy Share Image
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
Kerri and I met at theatre camp when were 16 years old, which is pretty lame. The rest of us met when we founded… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
“There are many self-proclaimed “screenwriting gurus”—though how you get to be a “guru” of something you’ve never actually done is beyond us. Screenplays are like blueprints. A guy who’s drawn up a lot of blueprints that have never actually been made into buildings is not an “architecture guru,” he’s an “unemployed douchebag.” A guy who talks about screen-writing but who’s… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share
I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
Being a movie star is stressful as hell. You've got to do crunches all day long. You've got to get up and learn lines. — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
Yes, I am complimented on my work in Kids in the Hall once or twice a week. Its a nice feeling. — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
The only guaranteed way to make something not very funny is to make it vague. — Thomas Lennon 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 to face issues and emotions, feelings, that they have. So it kind of forces them to face it head on, which I think is a really interesting dynamic. And I think it should be interesting and… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share
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
