Cry Quote by William Cowper

I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.

— Jennifer Donnelly

“The pure, absolute quality and nature of each note in itself are only appreciated by the strummer. For some notes have all the sea…

— Kenneth Grahame

People probably have different philosophies about this, but I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the…

— Lynn Nottage

My characters all start with rhythms and sounds. Once I hear the voice and get into the rhythm, the attitude and the physicality just…

— Dana Carvey

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot…

— William Faulkner

I read one book where the characters never said anything; instead, they spent all their time grunting and bleating and hissing and cooing and…

— Tana French

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

— Stephen King

“They stood at the bottom of the steps under a light shaped like a caged star, soothing each other with their thoughts as they…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

Nothing I force myself to write about ever turns out well, and so I've learned to wait for the voice, the incident, the image…

— Louise Erdrich

“Forgoing eternally, sir, such things as, for example: two fresh-shorn lambs bleat in a new-mown field; four parallel blind-cast linear shadows creep across a…

— George Saunders

You know it's my job to visualize, what is literal or audible, so I designed all the characters, and I designed what they do…

— Gerald Scarfe

What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I…

— Stephen Sondheim