Character Quote by Tom Barbash

This book blew me away. Kelly Parra writes with the keen eye of an artist. Graffiti Girl is warm, gutsy, and true-to-life - an…

— Anne Frasier

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never…

— Lisa Lutz

“Me to characters: talk to me people.”

— Buffy Andrews

My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown…

— Elmore Leonard

“Well, I like him. There’s a darkness to him. But does he make it all the way through?” She shrugged. “It’s entirely up to…

— Nancy Holder

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're…

— Greta Gerwig

“Some fantasies should just stay fantasies. The characters in them should never talk to each other in real life.”

— Luke Hartwell

I always get role models, people from real life who've lived the lives of the characters, and talk it through together, me, them and…

— Tony Scott

My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap…

— Ray Bradbury

In what we think of as bad dialogue, the characters talk directly to each other.

— Diane Johnson

“On a beau tenter de se convaincre qu'une voiture ne peut pas causer de dommages a un mort et qu'il est plus simple de…

— Anonymous

Over the weekend, former Enron executives Jeffrey Skilling and Rebecca Carter married each other during a huge ceremony in Houston. The happy couple is…

— Conan O'Brien