Books Quote by Will Schwalbe

People generally express more in between their sentences when they're not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they're…

— Heath Ledger

“When you write a story, don't just write it - live it; When putting words into the mouth of a protagonist (or any character)…

— Arti Honrao

It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd…

— Adrien Brody

When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to differentiate between…

— Mike Leigh

Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

— Alan Rickman

Body language is so important, as is composition. You can not say something, and then the body reacts, and it says a lot of…

— Anton Corbijn

Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very…

— Richard Armitage

With all of the characters I've played, I feel like I've tried to communicate through my eyes and face, as much or more than…

— Dakota Fanning

What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try…

— Pat Pattison

“There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches…

— Dani Harper

I like bringing little subtle complexities to a character. It's all about the subtext. No one can really describe or fully know another human…

— Ray Stevenson

For me, it's quite scary to go ahead to make my characters say things because, at times, you might actually be influencing a mind…

— Ekta Kapoor