Quotes About Characterization

lamented, "Too often sissy fellows have paraded themselves as representatives of Christianity's crowning work and characterization

I sat in our bedroom reading a horror novel called Whose Heart is in My Popcorn? Characterization was a bit thin, but boy could that woman write dismemberments.

In most novels it is taken for granted that people over fifty are as set in their ways as elderly apple trees, and as permanently shaped and scarred by the years they have weathered. The literary convention is that nothing major can happen to them except through subtraction.

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.

Great novels have great characterization no matter what. But multiple points of view let me examine characters from entirely different perspectives, allowing me to learn more about everyone in the process.

Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

I think it's easy for them to portray me as an aggressive player, but I'm not.

The movie portrayed me as this person who cussed every 10 seconds, and I don't cuss like that.

I never want to make any characters one-dimensional, especially as women can often be portrayed as the dark one or the evil one.

During my career I've enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

Before the film begins shooting, in your head, you need to be the character. You have to convince yourself somehow.

Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.

In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.

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There are no new plots, but there are plenty of fresh new characters with whom you can grab the reader. Characterization is the key to successful commercial fiction. Characterization starts with goal, motivation, and conflict. Character

Write non-fiction like fiction, so the reader is constantly turning the page to find out what happens next, and write fiction like non-fiction, so that when your character walks out of the donut shop and turns left into the nunnery, there really is a nunnery next door and not a muffler shop.

I silently chuckled at Cindy's characterization

Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.

So the dickhead had a name. Daemon—seemed fitting. And of course his sister would be as attractive as him. Why not? Welcome to West Virginia, the land of lost models.

You can do what you like to a writer if you don't mind being put in a book.

Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe.