Characters Quotes

One of the ways my first novel failed was that I was too in love with my characters. Jesmyn Ward
Love First Too Ways Characters Failed Novel
I don't really base any of my characters on specific people that I know, although my characters are informed by the kind of people who live in my community. Jesmyn Ward
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I recently read a collection of stories called 'Boondock Kollage,' by Regina Bradley. The stories follow multiple characters through the South, through the past and present. I loved reading that book: the first time I read the opening story, I was breathless and incoherent. Jesmyn Ward
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My process is pretty messy, and there's a lot of creative destruction in it. When I set out to write something, I'll write some passages from it just to figure out who these characters are, how they talk. And I have a dim sense of what it's about and where it's going to go, but I know that's going to change, too. Jesse Andrews
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The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to. Jesse Eisenberg
Experience Big Characters Feel Least Oftentimes Movies Personally Really Connected
In 'Zombieland,' it was such a freewheeling plot it almost didn't matter what the characters were doing scene to scene as long as there was a consistent banter. Jesse Eisenberg
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'Lonesome Dove' was the movie. I watched that over and over and over again, and I know every line. It was one that I loved as a kid for all the horses and characters that went over my head, but then the older I got, I realized how amazing it was on so many other different levels - Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones' relationship. Jesse Plemons
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I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family. Jesse Williams
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On the surface, it's really easy to dismiss certain characters, but sometimes you find that the most interesting parts are disappointingly shallow. It's your job as an actress to pull that person apart, and work out why they act the way that they do. Jessica Brown Findlay
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I am not one to go for traditional female roles, because I don't think traditionally female characters are very interesting, and I don't think they represent real life. Jessica Chastain
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I like characters and stories that challenge the status quo. Lately, I'm really interested in history because I find that in my public school education, I didn't learn about women in history. I want to introduce the world to some great stories and incredible heroes. Jessica Chastain
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I have a T-shirt that says Game of Stones, which has the Flintstones dressed as 'Game of Thrones' characters on it. Jessica Henwick
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To work with a director that has emotional commitment and passion toward the characters, and the piece, and the experiences, it only enriches your work. Jessica Lange
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Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians. Jessica Savitch
Politicians Defined Characters Particularly Texas
When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home. Jhonen Vasquez
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Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say. Jhumpa Lahiri
Loneliness Struggle Say Characters Fair Many
When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words. Jhumpa Lahiri
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In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil. Jhumpa Lahiri
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If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that places can signify emotion in them - and the way those bonds can be shattered. Jhumpa Lahiri
Relationship You Group Way Those Characters Signify Emotion Look Shattered Different Places Them Bonds
I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment. Jhumpa Lahiri
Me Entertainment Think Books Characters About Write Being Interest Forms
There's no point in using someone else's characters if you're going to turn them into your own vision. You have to be loyal to that person's worldview and sensitive to what they would and wouldn't have done with their characters, and how explicit or inexplicit they would've been. Jill Paton Walsh
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As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure how I could get hired to do what Mel Blanc and Daws Butler did. Create all of these great voices for animated characters. Jim Cummings
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As long as it comes across, the characters are well-served, the stories are good, and people like it, that's it for me. I'm a happy guy. Jim Cummings
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I started out doing multiple characters from day one, when I got my fist job in 'Dumbo's Circus.' I'm used to getting in an argument with myself, throwing myself off a cliff, patching myself up and brushing myself off with an arm around my shoulder. Jim Cummings
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Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one. Jim Henson
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I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely. Jim Jarmusch
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