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Quotes About Characters

if the thought of conflict and trouble makes you chortle gleefully and race to your computer, you are definitely in the right place. If you love conflict, chances are your characters will be flawed and in trouble. That's a good thing. Here's why: People with perfect lives are boring, and . . . well . . . frankly, they're irritating. How
~ Debra Dixon
Even light comedy should be well motivated. It's foolish to assume that a shorter book needs any less attention in the GMC department. In fact, a shorter book needs stronger GMC. By that I mean clear, understandable GMC. Short books can't waste time rambling. You've got to set up your characters and get out of the way. A
~ Debra Dixon
I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. "Hey man, what are you playing?" "Super Busy Hospital, could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery. This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times."
~ Demetri Martin
We're characters not of this world, so our knowledge about stuff, that other character's don't have, is quite fun.
~ Tom Ellis
Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.
~ Jim Rash
In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.
~ Krystal
In that moment, I realized how dangerous it was to keep company with the characters from books. They lived books lives of fierce deeds and deep yearning.
~ Jeffrey Ford
I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.
~ Jennifer Aniston
Immortals." Leda ground her teeth. "They should be called Insufferables.
~ Jennifer Ashley
I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
There were lives in those books, and deaths. Families and friends and lovers and enemies. Joy and despair, jealousy, envy, madness, and rage. All there. I reached out and touched the cover of one called The Earth . I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Pex and Chips were closer now, discussing the merits of various fictional characters. 'Captain Hook rocks,' said Pex. 'He would kick Barney's purple butt ten times out of ten.' Chips sighed. 'You're missing the whole point of Barney. It's a values thing. Butt-kicking is not the issue.
~ Eoin Colfer
Who were my fictitious witches and what did they mean? Never ask that of yourself while writing. It may stop you cold. Just trust that if you believe in your characters, others will too. ... Whenever I thought too critically about my work, I couldn't write.
~ Erica Jong
À chaque époque, commente le moine Élias, il s'est trouvé parmi les gens de Kfaryabda un personnage fou, et lorsqu'il disparaissait, un autre était prêt à prendre sa place comme une braise sous la cendre pour que ce feu ne s'éteigne jamais. Sans doute la Providence a-t-elle besoin de ces pantins qu'elle agite de ses doigts pour déchirer les voiles que la sagesse des hommes a tissés.
~ Amin Maalouf
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.
~ Amy Waldman
To explain De Sica, we must go back to the source of his art, namely to his tenderness, his love. The quality shared in common by Miracolo a Milano and Ladri di Biciclette, in spite of differences more apparent than real, is De Sica's inexhaustible affection for his characters.
~ André Bazin
The '80s don't seem to have gone away. Most weekends in the summer we're off doing a festival in front of 10,000 or 15,000 people with a load of other '80s acts. It was just such a great era for music, for individuals and characters. It just had a spirit.
~ Keren Woodward
I didn't read a lot of comic books. But I was into 'Dandy and The Beano,' which were like a weekly pulp fiction that featured characters like Desperate Dan, Dennis the Menace, and Billy Whizz - pretty simplistic stuff but very entertaining.
~ Robert Sheehan
The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.
~ Dick Wolf
When I was little, I used to get a comic - 'Cheeky Weekly' - which was a weekly comic whose main character was Cheeky. I used to get 'Roy of the Rovers,' too.
~ Lee Mack
We've been shooting the last two weeks with a lot of vampires. I don't want to give away too much, but if you've read the books, it's the standoff with lots of vampires in play. There's like 70 people going through the works at once. It's a little maddening, but fun. We shot pretty much the ending of the two movies the other day.
~ Peter Facinelli
I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice, some are not, but it has nothing to do with class or oppressors versus the oppressed.
~ Julian Fellowes
To the image of the characters, I do change my appearance. For example, I gain weight and I lose weight sometimes, and I grow my hair and cut it. Acting is all about physical expression, so I need to change my appearance for all the characters.
~ Min-sik Choi
I've been working straight since 2003, so I might just want to take an improv or theater class. That excites me. I can't wait to do different characters - not necessarily the leading chick who gets the guy, but the weird, freaky cousin.
~ Fergie