Quotes About Characters

The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.

The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about.

The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have cirumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own I ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about. The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.

I don't know whether my nation will perish and I don't know which of my characters is right. I invent stories, confront one with another, and by this means i ask questions. The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

I ponovno ga vidim onako kako sam ga vidio na samom po?etku romana. Stoji kraj prozora i gleda preko dvorišta u zid stambene zgrade. To je slika iz koje se rodio. Kao što sam rekao, likovi se ne ra?aju kao živi ljudi iz maj?inog tijela, ve? iz situacije, re?enice, metafora u kojoj je kao u orahovoj ljusci skrivena neka osnovna ljudska mogu?nost, mogu?nost o kojoj autor misli da je još nitko nije otkrio ili da o njoj još nitko ništa bitno nije rekao.

The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities.

As personagens do meu romance são as minhas próprias possibilidades não realizadas. É o que faz com que goste igualmente de todas elas e também com que elas me assustem igualmente um pouco. Todas, sem exceção, atravessaram uma fronteira que eu só contornei.

Op het toneel: de dialoog moet de toeschouwer een zo begrijpelijk en helder mogelijk idee verschaffen van het dramatisch conflict van de personages; in werkelijkheid: de persoanges die met elkaar praten, kennen elkaar en weten waarover ze het hebben; daardoor is hun dialoog voor een derde nooit helemaal begrijpelijk; hij blijft raadeslachtig, als het dunne oppervlak van het gezegde boven de onmetelijkheid vna het ongezegde.

I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.

I'm from the East Coast. I love the city. I love the characters. I love the kind of people we are, the kind other people look at in amazement.

I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having a beginning, middle, and ending, though not necessarily in that order.

I love when people improvise as long as they're great improvisers, what I mean by that is people can improvise within their characters and within the scene.

I love con-men characters in film.

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.

I love writing about Oklahoma. I love writing Oklahoma characters; I love playing Southwestern characters.

Movies and acting are so much fun. I love playing different characters and doing different genres. It's all still very interesting to me.

It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go.

There are lots and lots of different films that I love, and watching different characters and how different people play them.

I don't think anybody deals well with tragedy or grief, but maybe my characters are particularly bad at it. Which is why I love them.

I'm such a fan of Deadwood. I love the characters in that. They're such wonderful characters. I'm a fan of The Wire. Those are all heavily character-based shows.