Book Quote by Thomas Perry Download Open image “I do like to explore evil characters in my books.” — Thomas Perry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Character Evil
I can find some part of me that relates to even the most evil characters. At least in my imagination. — Richard Brake Copy Share Image
I enjoy playing evil, but not one-dimensional evil characters. I like the ebbs and cracks in the armor. — Rodrigo Santoro Copy Share Image
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Yes, of course it's fun to play evil, but it's simply fun to play any different characters. — Katie Cassidy Copy Share Image
I love playing bad. But my whole thing is usually villains that don't know that they're evil. — Danny Huston Copy Share Image
You have got to dig deep into your own spectrum while playing a character. If I am playing evil, believe me, I am bringing… — Kay Kay Menon Copy Share Image
I think even the characters that are fundamentally evil and wrong, I want people to really love them. I think that's important to writing… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because… — William Friedkin Copy Share Image
I like to take fictitious characters and circumstances and wedge them into a real world. — Kurt Sutter Copy Share Image
I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark… — Rachelle Lefevre Copy Share Image
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
“I love you' is what people say when they have run out of words and can't say anything else. It is like reaching out… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
“The women sang the Ohgiwe and danced together as the grandmothers had, for the brave, and the unselfish, for the protectors.” — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
All writers are mimics, and I'm not interested in picking up somebody else's style or voice. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Tod Goldberg has long been one of the most interesting writers around, and Gangsterland is his biggest and best book so far. — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
