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.

Growing up, I loved the tale of Peter Rabbit and also books on Pippi Longstocking. Pippi was a girl who had so much fun and was very daring. My sons loved all the Dr. Seuss...

But even in such works where the author is ideally unobtrusive, he remains diffused through the book so that his very absence becomes a kind of radiant presence. As the French say, il brille par...

I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters...

It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.

Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don’t want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.

Charaktere sind vielleicht schon bezeichnet und beschrieben worden, seit es Lebewesen gibt, die sprechen können. Dichter haben das sehr differenziert getan; man denke an Proust, Tolstoi oder Dostojewski. Diese Autoren haben die innere Dynamik eines...

Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.

It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.

I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ characters. I was shy, but I was also kind of a tomboy, and I was really good at sticking my...

I don’t want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There’s a facility in that kind of writing.

You can never know enough about your characters

Like the ‘good’ characters in literature, the sane don’t have any memorable lines.

I don’t discuss my own beliefs in public, but I will say the beliefs I’ve given my characters do not necessarily represent what I myself believe.

I’ve done literally 100, 150 different characters.

‘Star Trek’ was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

I am like my characters – sometimes even the female ones.

I turned to the window. A single raindrop fell against it, and seeing my reflection in the glass, I suddenly knew why Finn’s eyes were familiar.They were exactly like mine.