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Characters are born from necessity. -- Christopher Paolini
Characters are just extensions of my madness. -- Mark Tilbury
Characters are the lifeblood of anygood book. -- Craig Hart
Six Characters in Search of an Author. -- Luigi Pirandello
Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater. -- Michael Tippett
Characters are limbs that writers use to kill with. -- Joseph Eastwood
Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me. -- Kate Christensen
Characters begin as your children and become your teachers. -- Chloe Thurlow
Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories. -- Robert Newton Peck
Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape. -- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others. -- Robert Boswell
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them. -- Antonio Banderas
Characters limit will be short, when I start to describe my status. -- Gaurav GRV Sharma
Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Characters for me are born on page one and they die on page 100. -- Brady Corbet
Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that. -- Michael Morpurgo
You look like a protagonist. -- Rainbow Rowell
I always liked strange characters. -- Tim Burton
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. -- Henry David Thoreau
Anyone can be a story. Everyone is. -- Johnny Rich
Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned. -- Auliq Ice
You can never know enough about your characters -- W. Somerset Maugham
I never draw blood on a first date. -- Talla Demoniac Dance
It's not a romance, it's a love story. -- Sadie Jones
Don't let your next decision threaten the world's peace. -- Constance Chuks Friday
Truth is irrelevant; what matters is what people believe. -- Henry Mosquera
Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity. -- Glen Keane
We are all characters in the book of life. -- John E. Carson
. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude. -- Virginia Woolf
God is the source of life, honour and wealth. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
...you mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly... -- John Geddes
If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves. -- John Irving
Just me, my music, and the voices in my head. -- Christie Silvers
In the midst of calamity, we build our inner strength. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The best plot twists are the ones you didn't expect. -- Shannon L. Alder
Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters. -- Gordon Ramsay
A book is simply a snap shot of the full story. -- Erica Goros
What we do going forward defines who we are." Juliette, Pg. 397 -- Hugh Howey
I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me. -- Irrfan Khan
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. -- Tryon Edwards
I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books. -- Patti Roberts
People don't suddenly just change, you just suddenly see the real them. -- Michelle Blanchard
Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines. -- Adam Phillips Going Sane
I write to keep the characters in my head from driving me crazy. -- Alexandra A. Cheshire
There are 26 characters in the alphabet, and what characters they are! Especially Q. -- Jarod Kintz
If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind. -- Alice Walker
Never let your character say "how could it get any worse"....it always does. -- Kimi Alexandre
Whereas Mirabelle is tall, thin and sad, Vesta is physically and emotionally her opposite. -- Sara Sheridan
Hotness is not a redeemable character trait. It's actually not a character trait at all. -- Navessa Allen
I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day. -- Jo Walton
If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals. -- Don Roff
I'm 20 years old. I spend my days in a dictionary and half my mind in Fantasy. -- Almney King
A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose. -- Nusrat Sultana
Don't let your ego write checks your character can't cash.another from the world of tweets -- Robin Glasser
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. -- Khalil Gibran
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Dialogue between two characters, each of them different forms of karate, might be a bit choppy. -- Jarod Kintz
There are stages we all go through when dealing with character deaths. Grief. Anger. Denial. Laughter. Coulson. -- Jack Lewis Baillot
Their situation was becoming ever harder to deny: they were characters in someone's story. This whole world-- -- Stephen King
Very often the characters people respond best to have little parts of reality they can relate to. -- Sara Sheridan
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary. -- Franklin P. Adams
One of the key secrets of great writing is knowing where to start and when to stop. -- Chloe Thurlow
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey. -- Alan Rickman
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. -- Ernest Hemingway
Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters. -- Teresa Mummert
Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of their manifestations. -- Linda Durbin
I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me. -- Lian Hearn
I feel that the characters in my book, if they were real, would be like, "Seriously, another plot twist? -- Meghan Blistinsky
This isn't the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer. -- Meryl S. Fortney
And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends. -- Fish
Image is what everyone sees when the lights are on; character is what remains when the lights are off. -- Idowu Koyenikan
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. -- Victoria Abril
In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists. -- Jefferson Smith
You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world. -- John Rogers
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. -- John F. Kennedy
I wish stories were kinder to their characters," Maddie said. "But I guess trouble is more interesting to read about. -- Shannon Hale
You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters. -- James Dashner
Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end? -- Johnny Rich
We live in a society where mutual respect and appreciation should be considered one of the pillars of modern life. -- Auliq Ice
My characters don't always know more than the reader does, because my readers get the best seat in Paper House. -- Carla H. Krueger
You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. -- Joss Whedon
Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions."(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886) -- Anton Chekhov
Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [...]. -- Arlaina Tibensky
I'd like my readers to feel they want to follow my characters off the page at the end of the book. -- Vanessa Couchman
The worst thing you can ever say about a character is not that you hated him but that you found him uninteresting. -- Jennifer Bort Yacovissi
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. -- Ray Bradbury
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!"(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886) -- Anton Chekhov
Hello, my name is Albany, and I have a telepathic connection with my twin sister, along with the ability to read minds. -- C.B. Cook
But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page? -- Shannon Hale
Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters. -- Marc Pamittan
People will fall in love with you due to your character, but they'll stay in love with you due to your attitude -- Constance Chuks Friday
Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books. -- Shannon L. Alder
Jenny looked, as usual, elegant and as fine-drawn as a young doe, but oddly muted, as if she had been outlined in sepia. -- Anne Rivers Siddons
That's what novels are: They're amalgams of archetypes, collections of random traits one observes in other people through life, blended into fresh characters. -- Michael Callahan
Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012! -- Stella Atrium
Pilot scripts are particularly difficult to write because you have to introduce all the characters without it feeling like a series of introductions. -- Tina Fey
I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body. -- Christopher Stocking
...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 ... -- John Geddes
The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them. -- Claudia Bakker
The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me. -- Lauren DeStefano
You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know. -- Clint Eastwood
And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete. -- Chris Cleave
You can't write a sory until you've felt. Breathe it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story. -- Angelica Banks
Often in literary criticism, writers are told that a character isn't likable, as if a character's likability is directly proportional to the quality of a novel's writing. -- Roxane Gay
Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you. -- Michael J. Kannengieser
Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off. -- John Banville
Most people carry their demons around with them, buried down deep inside. Writers wrestle their demons to the surface, fling them onto the page, then call them characters. -- C.K. Webb
A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions. -- Kevin Hood
There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn. -- Shawn Lukas
I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments. -- Dr. Seuss
I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist. -- Berkeley Breathed
A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them. -- Anthony Trollope
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? -- Django Wexler
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. -- Marcel Proust
Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren't characters I looked up to and identified with. -- Angelina Jolie
When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life -- Carl Henegan
I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that. -- James DeSantis

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