Characters Quote by Walter Kirn Download Open image “Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.” — Walter Kirn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Characters Creators Fine Stopping Think Work
People can have whatever ideas that they like. But what I'm not OK with is my character being in question. — August Alsina Copy Share Image
If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if… — Luke Wilson Copy Share Image
“The thing creators have to remember is that to a very real extent they are fictional characters to their fans—and that what fans want (the product… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Everything's always got to be character-based. We know we can't, if we're sitting in the editing room, watch the sequence for more than 20… — Anthony Russo Copy Share Image
Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting. — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot. — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“I just wasn't ready for his stories. They'd breed with the others I'd heard and hatch new monsters, because there was no such thing… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“For time to pass it would have to go somewhere, and where would that be? Time sits. We move, it sits. Sometimes it trembles… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.” — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends? — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I'm truly, 100% guided by the characters and my Muse. If one of the characters suddenly decided to do something very different, I'd just… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating. — Hannah Murray Copy Share Image
I've just always loved really good projects. The things that draw me into a new project have very little to do with genre and… — Jewel Staite Copy Share Image
“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
My characters in both 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama' films were so relatable that every other guy connects with me. — Kartik Aaryan Copy Share Image
I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image