Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leon Uris

Your book catches on like any other new product and once it does you are there and how you behave when you get there is up to you.

Douglas Conant

You can't talk your way out of something you behaved your way into.

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Joel Edgerton

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

Marc Guggenheim

I think it's very hard to talk about these characters in a closed-ended, sort of non-sequel way, especially characters like The Flash and Green Lantern, which have such rich, long histories.

Martin Freeman

I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.

Julie Kagawa

I like to put my characters through a lot, so, in 'Talon,' my fans will find familiar themes of bravery and sacrifice, and what it means to be human... even if you're not human.

Gena Rowlands

I like to think that Mrs. Asher is a lot stranger mother than I am. I hope that that's true. She's one of the strangest characters I've ever played.

Jon Favreau

I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.

Samantha Shannon

I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.