Quotes about character
characters finished needed reader rewarding says school tells until
When a young reader tells you that they'd never finished a book outside of school until they read yours, or that they really needed to hear something that one of your characters says or thinks... that's just rewarding and humbling. Sara Zarr
characters seconds sit stuff watching
When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.
character notice places shot
When I shot these scenes, my character was a lesbian. I thought it was intriguing. You'll notice places where the lesbianism has been mercilessly excised. Jennifer Tilly
character embraced good monk people relate thrilled
We're thrilled with the way people have embraced the show and kind of relate to the character, not just the character of Monk but all the characters. It's a good job, Tony Shalhoub
characters decisions diverse dynamic hard seven starting
We thought of a family, in a sense, ... that we put together, just starting out and making decisions they had to live with. You never know what the dynamic is going to be once you put these seven larger-than-life characters together, so it's hard to tell what's going to happen. Generally, we look for seven really interesting, really diverse people.
characters focusing great stories
We think we've got great stories and characters that will lend themselves to great standalone experiences, and that's the way we're focusing on it.
characters comic drawing fiction gain growing particular rural science setting town
Why not take a science fiction comic and put the characters in a small town to gain their particular perspective? A lot of that comes from me growing up in a small town on a farm, so that's what I know and what I'm comfortable with. My drawing style is also very sparse and minimalist, so a rural setting complements that. Jeff Lemire
character dead deal homer maybe pieces possibly represents
Why else take these two pieces from Homer and why deal with Ulysses? Maybe this represents the dead person's character who possibly was a warrior.
characters create ordinary people
You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. Jodi Picoult
characters delicate people portray worship
You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over. Richard Madden
character client finally jennifer joey kick looking lots people spotlight worst year
This year will kick off with Joey finally making it in Hollywood. The same character now has lots of people looking at him, the spotlight on him. He's now not the worst client of Jennifer Coolidge. He's the best.
character possess seems team year
This year the team seems to possess a lot more character and more depth. William Kennedy
character retain
To retain your character you need marketing. Without marketing, you can do nothing, David Mason
character discussion heart team
We had a discussion about team character and heart at halftime.
characters lifestyle living
I like acting. I really like acting. The career, it can keep you interested. With 'Entourage,' the characters are living a lifestyle that is kind of troubling. But the challenge is to make Shauna a person. Debi Mazar
characters driven fear interests pain people
I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me. Emory Cohen
characters faith happen reason writes
The reason you can take the leap of faith with Stephen King, when it comes to the paranormal, or the things that happen in the world that he creates, is because the characters that he writes are accessible. Emily Rose
characters companies forgotten people plays shakespeare theater themselves wrote
When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was writing plays for people to go and see, to take them on a journey of recognition so that they could see themselves within the characters on the stage. We as actors and theater companies and film companies have forgotten that. Eamonn Walker
characters fun process reflects rushing
What's fun is that the characters in 'Broad City' are rushing and hustling, and our process reflects that. Ilana Glazer
character characters happen happy hear leads living love message voices
I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them tell me the story. Sometimes I would love to have a happy ending, and it doesn't happen because the character or the story leads me in another direction. Isabel Allende
characters lives trying
I've been trying to make a difference as an actor. I want to play characters that move people, have them look at their lives differently, or give them an escape. Hill Harper
characters playing
I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role.
characters script stories
My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and reverse-engineering what I find in the real world. Tony Scott
character everybody experience explored fantasy game recipe situation sort special success unique whatever
I always think the recipe for success for a game or any sort of a fantasy experience is to think of a character that hasn't really been explored before, who is unique and has special abilities that not everybody has, and plop them into whatever is the most interesting situation to plop them into. Tim Schafer
characters dedicated form inside labeled war work wrote
'The Things They Carried' is labeled right inside the book as a work of fiction, but I did set out when I wrote the book to make it feel real... I use my own name, and I dedicated the book to characters in the book to give it the form of a war memoir. Tim O'Brien
character definitely draw love point
I thought my character definitely was very much in love with him and wanted to be with him, but I think at some point they were going to have to draw the line. Rosario Dawson
characters remain women
Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population. Sharon Lawrence
characters coming fully invent love people scene trying
So much of what I do... is coming up with new characters and trying to invent voices for them, and to have people fully fleshed out in my head and to know who can say what in the scene and who these characters are... I love it. Rob Thomas
characters lives loud noticed people quite relief stories
The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are. Rachel Joyce
characters dance irritating keeps life main music peripheral reading showing struck time
On reading the first part of Anthony Powell's four-part masterpiece, 'A Dance to the Music of Time,' I was struck by one of the characters - an irritating peripheral character- who keeps showing up in the main protagonist's life. Rebecca Pidgeon
character writing views
When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views. Orson Scott Card
character events fiction
Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places. Robert Morgan
character thinking ideas
When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.