Quotes About Characters

The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.

I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.

When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.

Drawing on the experience I have of now directing, to me, my one strength that I know is my ability to communicate with actors and therefore make characters really important.

I've always written stuff based on personal experience, but I've always disguised it by the use of characters.

I want to go and have a real experience and it's just lovely to sit and watch a movie and just be really transported by a story and care about the characters. That's always what I'm looking for.

But of course: our stories had many characters. Great Perseus or modest Peleus. Heracles or almost-forgotten Hylas. Some had a whole epic, others just a verse.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

In mathematics, in place of characters, you have variables or unknowns. If I'm trying to plot a theorem, I try to imagine these variables interacting with each other. The boundary of their interaction is the theorem.

seems incredible to them that metals and characters

Que me da lástima porque me encariñé con los personajes. Y ahora se terminó, y es como si estuvieran muertos.

Is it the freedom of characters in fiction that we find so inspiring, or the way that freedom transforms them?

My characters were...rebelling against something...My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characters what they needed for me to do - be courageous enough in my writing to make them interesting.

What did you all name your BrainPals? Asshole, I said. Bitch, Jesse said. Dickward, said Thomas. Fuckhead, said Harry. Satan, said Maggie. Sweetie, said Susan. Apparantly, I'm the only one who likes my BrainPal.

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.

In other characters, it's driven by insecurity, or it's driven by fear, or - there's always a driver. And all the physical manifestations, you need your way in.

So when things start going badly, you're invested in the characters in a way I think amplifies the horror and the fear because you're invested.

In the stage of life, characters come and go after their performance. If someone is gone, just smile and clap in appreciation for them, for what good they did and what lessons they taught.