Quotes About Characters

Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. di..ens' characters are Nigerians. Do y

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.

Berma in Andromaque, in Les Caprices de Marianne, in Phèdre, was one of

The universe cannot be read until we have learnt the language and become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend a single word. Without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth. This

Stories twist and turn and grow and meet and give birth to other stories. Here and there, one story touches another, and a familiar character, sometimes the hero, walks over the bridge from one story into another.

from ages seven through thirteen I felt a kind of age-loyalty to characters [ Out of the Garden ].

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.

Only the most pleasant characters in this book are portraits of living people and the events here recorded unfortunately never took place.

I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them.

Why not dream your own wonderful sequels? When you have finished a book, it can go on in your mind, the characters doing just what you want them to do.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

Life is a plain canvas where you paint your own story, choosing your own characters, the shades and the landscape.

Everyone has a story, but no one would make it to the happy ending if they didnt have the help of the other characters.

The journalists of the United States are generally in a very humble position, with a scanty education and a vulgar turn of mind...the characteristics of the American journalist consist in an open and coarse appeal to the passions of the readers; he abandons principles to assail the characters of individuals, to track them in private life and disclose all their weaknesses and vices. Nothing could be more deplorable.

The misconception that bothers me the most is the notion of madness," Pettit said. "It devalues him as a great artist. He was so hard working, so dedicated, so exacting, but some rather believe he had to be insane to write about insane characters. It's the opposite. You have to be in complete command of your art to depict that so effectively.

children, in Gorey stories, are an endangered species.

I don't care about the rules of grammar so long as my characters' words sound true to life and bite heavily.

Creativity is its own reward. A writer must relish those unfathomable moments when plot-lines and characters fall into place. It's the closest thing to magic we know.

It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

We had 1 book, the phone book, I've read it, it wasn't a great read, lots of characters, and on the end loads of polish people turn up.

I don't make fun of my characters. I just like to laugh and I think people are funny and the world is funny.

You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.

I've always enjoyed watching characters that aren't aware that they're doing anything funny. And I think that inherently makes them funnier.

I don't want to be the funny girl or the serious girl. I would hope to touch on all different genres and all different types of characters, which I think I've been lucky enough to do, so far.