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Quotes About Characters

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.
~ Will Schwalbe
You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them. I don't think I'll ever get over Melanie's death in Gone With the Wind. But I'm still so glad I got to know her.
~ Will Schwalbe
I asked Mom why she thought that was, and she pointed out that joy is a product not of whether characters live or die but of what they've realized and achieved, or how they are remembered.
~ Will Schwalbe
The difference between a live play and a dead one is that in the former the characters control the plot, while in the latter the plot controls the characters.
~ WILLIAM ARCHER
All perform their tragic play,There struts Hamlet, there is Lear.
~ William Butler Yeats
From such a society a committee might be appointed, whose business it should be to procure all the information they could upon the subject, to receive contributions, to enquire into the characters, tempers, abilities and religious views of the missionaries, and also to provide them with necessaries for their undertakings.
~ William Carey
Some of these figures were well known and even revered Delhi characters, such as the Majzub (holy madman) Din Ali Shah: "He is so careless about the affairs of this world," wrote Sayyid
~ William Dalrymple
Long are the lives of elves' he said. Short are the tempers of dwarfs,'Gotrek muttered, just loud enough to be heard.
~ William King
He, who was so monumentally intolerant by his very nature, was strangely tolerant of one human condition—a man's morals. No other party in Germany came near to attracting so many shady characters. As we have seen, a conglomeration of pimps, murderers, homosexuals, alcoholics and blackmailers flocked to the party as if to a natural haven. Hitler did not care, as long as they were useful to him.
~ William L. Shirer
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.
~ William M. Kucmierowski
People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.
~ David Duchovny
de conclusión: En mi obra de teatro, yo era todos los personajes. He aprendido a tirar por todos los caminos. Y así me convertí en mí misma. La
~ David Foenkinos
En mi obra de teatro, yo era todos los personajes. He aprendido a tirar por todos los caminos. Y así me convertí en mí misma.
~ David Foenkinos
I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.
~ David Grossman
I didn't ever want Disney characters in EPCOT," said Jack Lindquist, who as vice president of marketing sold the idea to Card Walker. "The Magic Kingdom and EPCOT are two separate places. I thought characters should only be in the Magic Kingdom. My feeling was each park had to stand on its own, and if you could see Mickey Mouse in EPCOT, why would you go to the Magic Kingdom? I think, more importantly, you should create new icons for new parks.
~ David Koenig
No harm," he said as he danced on, cutting the air. Only now, the snowflakes began to bleed as he cut them. Battle of white and scarlet... "Oto-san, what can I do?" I wept in the dream, my tears freezing to my cheeks. "Dance," he said, his face still and calm, his blade whistling through the air. Blood flew from the tip of the sword, painting characters of death and disaster across the white ground. Dancing.
~ David Kudler
People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?"
~ Zephyr Teachout
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!
~ Anton Chekhov
You and I are characters in God's Story, handmade by Him. Every character serves a purpose.
~ Randy Alcorn
Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.
~ William Shenstone
WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .
~ Ambrose Bierce
I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.
~ Lynn Abbey
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.
~ Alan Rickman
I still wrestle with the catharsis of acting. I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that I don't always feel good.
~ James Ransone