Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sara Zarr

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.

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.

Jennifer Tilly

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.

Tony Shalhoub

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,

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.

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.

William Shakespeare

I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.

Rick Elice

There is no pit orchestra. The musicians are essentially characters in the show. That was a big idea from Des. And it set a structure within which we were able to write the show.

Edan Lepucki

I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

Neal Shusterman

I post on Twitter regularly, and when I checked my followers, I saw that my own characters were following me. They sounded eerily like my characters would actually sound. It was a very surreal thing to see come to life digitally!

Neal Shusterman

Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their own, and I always go with the character's choices. Most of the time I discover plot twists and directions that are better than what I originally had planned.

Our guys have been here before and I was real proud of the character and guts our kids showed at the end. It was a tight game, but I never saw us panic. That's the mark of a good team and I think our kids were comfortable in the environment.

Our goal was to make it to the playoffs. I never expected this. It's the same group of kids except for a couple. I underestimated the character of the kids.

Our guys showed some character today, but can't do anything in the conference showing up once a week. We're not going to get very far showing up once a week and that's about what we're doing.

Our guys showed a lot of character and heart. It wasn't going to real good there at the beginning. But we made some plays at the end of the half to give us some momentum, a little feel-good going into the locker room.

Nancy Kress

Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.

Over the years you either keep your character for various reasons, or you let them go.

Chris Scelfo

Our team is going to be ready to play. You are going to be amazed. It is a special group with character and pride. We are going to control what we can control.

Our girls made the adjustments and showed a lot of character in the second half.

Our top guys are character guys, and they never quit. It's contagious.

Our Zinfandel is so complex I thought it deserved special treatment. It's a grape that reveals tremendous character in the right hands.

Bebe Neuwirth

Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see

Barry Lopez

The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of the exterior landscape; the shape of the individual mind is affected by the land as it is by genes.

We need some strong leadership on this team. There's a lot of character on this team, but the leaders really need to step it up.

Billy Corgan

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.

Billy Corgan

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.

Billy Corgan

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.

Bill Condon

A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

I get no pleasure from politics; its not in my character.

Bhagat Singh

Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love

C. S. Lewis

It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self- revelations.

Cecelia Ahern

It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope - and that's what I do with all my stories.

Carrie Preston

The Good Wife was definitely the biggest surprise and gift that Ive had in a long time, and that did come out of some other work that I had done. That whole adage of work begets work actually worked in that case - it was at the very end of their first season that my character was first introduced.