Quotes about character
character writing thinking
Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down, and simply write down what they do, say, or think. Terry Pratchett
character personality dresses
The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.
character plot happens
The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really.
character voice plot
Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.
character writing cutting
Writing, for me, is a little like wood carving. You find the lump of tree (the big central theme that gets you started), and you start cutting the shape that you think you want it to be. But you find, if you do it right, that the wood has a grain of its own (characters develop and present new insights, concentrated thinking about the story opens new avenues). If you're sensible, you work with the grain and, if you come across a knot hole, you incorporate that into the design. This is not the same as 'making it up as you go along'; it's a very careful process of control.
character home plot
With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with. Terry Eagleton
character men mark
Nothing marks a man's character better than his attraction to intelligence. Terry Goodkind
character sound fiction
It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!
character mind littles
Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.
character done
You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done. Terrence Howard
character home trying
The truth is, the personal ends up becoming part of your professional. As an actor, much of your work happens at home as you try things out on your family. Sometimes you stay in character unbeknownst to you and keep practicing.
character play roles
Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind
character self levels
Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level. Terry Brooks
character four want
The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.
character thinking creating
I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect. Tennessee Williams
character simplicity humans
In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
character play theatre
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
character writing desire
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.
character design attention
Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the readers attention. Ted Naifeh
character play
You have to like the characters you play. Ted McGinley
character dying henry-v
I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime. Ted Lange
character great-experiences theater
In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience. Tcheky Karyo
character perception thrive
Do what you know and perception is converted into character. Ralph Waldo Emerson
character play actors
The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.
character giving risk
You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose. Randeep Hooda
character ice law
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinction. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. It is like ice, on which no beauty of form, no majesty of carriage, can plead any immunity; they must walk gingerly, according to the laws of ice, or down they must go, dignity and all.
character thinking function
Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.
character mean men
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
character stills spells
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
character men conscience
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
character heaven fruit
Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.
character mean men
It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.
character men compromise
Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.