The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have never been, allows us to care about, worry about, laugh with,...

I do know that I like to play characters that are sometimes a little on the outside – that’s because it feels kind of romantic and sexier to me. I really think they are the...

I’m much more interested in lesser-known eccentrics and characters and performers. Like Matthew Buchinger, who was born in Germany in 1674, had no arms or legs and yet did magic, and had 14 kids, and...

By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You’re sort of a predator, an invader of...

One of the benefits to television is that you’re with these characters for years, you know them so well.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

People will fall in love with you due to your character, but they’ll stay in love with you due to your attitude

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more...

In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering...

Now my uncle knew many of them personally, and also ladies of another class, not clearly distinguished from actresses in my mind. He used to entertain them at his house.

It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I...

I’d like my readers to feel they want to follow my characters off the page at the end of the book.

It’s how I express myself – through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

I think the world is a place for oddballs and freaks. I’m only interested in oddballs and freaks as characters.

Besides it’s not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can’t you?

Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.

In a book, even the real bastards can’t hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one’s there to see you...

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It’s always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

You don’t buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before...

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman’s power to choose who...

I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I’ll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.

If you want to believe in the fantasy on screen, then you have to believe in the characters and use them as a stepping-stone to lead you into this fantasy world.

The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, because they are so good.

My characters don’t always know more than the reader does, because my readers get the best seat in Paper House.

Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.

To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the...

I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel...

Rob; you could have been someone I wanted to be with. But you’re not; you never spoke to Niall, not really. You joked and you danced, but how often did you really talk? You never...

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their...

I’ve played four characters now, my latest one being Sandor the gypsy.

There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it’s like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I’ve finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

People may like a person’s thought for its touching words, but they like him truly for his own deeds touching their heart.

Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They’ve discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn’t exist.

Don’t let your next decision threaten the world’s peace.

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of...

If you don’t have obsessions, don’t write. my characters are obsessed.

If you write a bunch of different characters with a bunch of different opinions, you end up with these long scenes of everyone standing around talking.

…it’s not the stories – it’s the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told …

I’m arguably the least real of all my characters, a state of affairs for which I make no apologies, being, indeed, altogether proud of the fact.

I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?

Acting has always been a way for me to express myself, and show all my vulnerabilities and flaws through my characters.

Certainly, I look for different characters ’cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don’t like to get typecast.

Hundreds of thousands of people live in my library. Some are real, others are fictional. The real ones are the so-called imaginary characters in works of literature, the fictional ones are their authors. We know...

If you treat your characters like people, they’ll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I’ve really studied it.

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away – even if it’s only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of...

I love con-men characters in film.