Quotes About Characters

I think my best quality as a writer is the ability to craft complicated, nuanced, interesting characters.

I want to have a lengthy career. I want to play interesting characters. I want to tell beautiful stories, complex stories, deep stories.

That's what politics is. It's the story of what's happening, what does it mean, what's the conclusion, who are the interesting characters?

I'm fortunate to have got the opportunity to play interesting characters.

I aspire to play interesting characters.

I would love to document all the interesting characters out on the East End. There are some really inspiring people - you can feel the creative energy out there.

I feel certain negative characters, or the ones with grey shades, provide more scope for acting. These characters help you excel. And such interesting characters allure me.

My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don't consider myself a very interesting person, so the characters I play are usually much more fun.

I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.

I haven't been in the film world long enough to really understand the gravity of 'Big Hero's' success. I'm just happy that it is translating well internationally and that the story and the characters are loved by audiences around the world, and everything that's come after that has been secondary to the initial response.

Internationally if you see, 'Narcos' and 'House of Cards' are all very dark shows with very dark characters. The audience may hate the character but they will love the actor.

Sometimes I think prostitution and slavery may be the actual subjects of all fiction because of the way fiction exploits its characters.)

All roles are visible , when the story ends

I write well-fleshed out characters, and inevitably, more ideas spring from my subconscious. They all have a little bit of me in them. It's very hard to figure out in advance how a story will unfold, but after having written so many novels, I feel more comfortable letting the ideas come up from somewhere in my own subconscious. Writing is much easier now because that sense of panic I used to experience doesn't set in as I begin a new book.

My series characters are like family to me. They actually talk to me, telling me what to write and what not to write. And when they talk, I always listen

This is a work of fiction. If certain characters resemble people in real life, it is because certain people in real life resemble characters from a novel. Nobody, therefore, is entitled to feel included in this book. Nobody, by the same token, to feel excluded.

El perspectivismo, que Cervantes contribuyó a inaugurar en la novela, es un procedimiento narrativo gracias al cual una misma y sola realidad es abordada desde distintos puntos de vista, según los diversos personajes, lo que resulta no tanto en versiones diferentes de la realidad como, de hecho, en varias "realidades

La vie est une sitcom: une suite de scènes qui se déroulent toujours dans les mêmes décors, avec à peu près les mêmes personnages, et dont on attend les prochains épisodes avec une impatience teintée d'abrutissement.

Contar una aventura no es el objetivo; los personajes ayudan a escuchar a otro, que quizá sea mi hermano, mi prójimo, mi amigo, mi ancestro, mi doble.

Yates's determinism, like Flaubert's, was a matter of knowing his characters well enough to know their fates, and making the reader see this, too. Just as one never expects Emma to repent of her infidelity and embrace provincial life, one also figures the Wheelers won't move to Europe and live happily ever after. Their weaknesses, well defined at the outset, mark them for a bad end.

In other words Yates had remembered the lesson of his first great master, Fitzgerald—namely, that people rarely say what they mean, and good dialogue is a matter of catching one's characters "in the very act of giving themselves away.

We don't have to have easy moralizing reactions to characters in literature.

Instead of taking a quiet nap as I should have been doing, I spent the afternoon in a teeming anthill of cutthroats, pickpockets, and shady characters who'd committed every crime in the book. Including one I couldn't forgive them for - no one asked me for my autograph.

'A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I'm like, W'hoa, I'm feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!'