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... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about (Characters Quotes)
As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It’s the reason why people love ‘Harry Potter.’ Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you’re a young kid, you get attached to these characters (Characters Quotes)
Because I didn’t have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. I’ve always been attracted to temporary families. They tend to be lost characters (Characters Quotes)
As the new work fills my notebooks, I’ve come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed (Characters Quotes)
The only characters I ever don’t like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don’t write characters that leave no impression on me (Characters Quotes)
Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward (Characters Quotes)
But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you’ve traveled with them through every page? (Characters Quotes)
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I’ll miss them when they’re gone (Characters Quotes)
His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself (Characters Quotes)
One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters (Characters Quotes)
Whoa, I’ve really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can’t be healthy to develop relationships with people who don’t exist (Characters Quotes)
One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man (Characters Quotes)
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable (Characters Quotes)
The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters (Characters Quotes)
We all have three characters: the one we really have, the one we try to convince the world we have, and the one we think we have (Characters Quotes)
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight (Characters Quotes)
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live (Characters Quotes)
The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity (Characters Quotes)
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental (Characters Quotes)
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question (Characters Quotes)
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible (Characters Quotes)
My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone (Characters Quotes)
Just don’t pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don’t. Stay open to them. It’s teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. It’s that simple (Characters Quotes)
Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis or explanation of the relationships between the characters unnecessary (Characters Quotes)
It’s dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters (Characters Quotes)
Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know (Characters Quotes)
The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon... has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right (Characters Quotes)
I never play characters that are like me because I’m a boring person. I wouldn’t want to see me in a movie (Characters Quotes)
I’ve seen lawyers who don’t represent me and spokespeople who do not know me speaking for me. These characters always seem to surface with dreadful allegations just as another project, an album, a video is being released (Characters Quotes)
The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly (Characters Quotes)