2740 Characters Quotes for You to Enjoy

In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s. Jerry Yang

Me Crazy Made Long Characters Able Some Something Small He Feet Like Dealer Private His Lotus Very Artist Dynasty Script Available Fortunate Standard Yuan

I've found that in fiction - and this is just the kind of writer I am - I can't really work from an outline. I have a vague idea of the characters at the beginning of the book, and then I have a vague idea of whatever the end of the book will be, but I can't approach creative nonfiction like that. Jesmyn Ward

Work Creative Book Will Beginning Whatever Approach Characters Kind Outline Writer Idea Like Nonfiction Am End Just Fiction Then Really Found Vague Vague Idea

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 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

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

Change Creative Destruction Sense Too Dim Out Characters Some Pretty About Something Write Know Talk Messy How Passages Go Lot Going Just Where Process Figure Who Set

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

Matter Long Consistent Plot Characters Scene Almost Doing Were

'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

Relationship Amazing Lonesome Older Every Other Kid Characters Horses Head Over Know Robert Got How Line Lee Different Movie Loved Again Different Levels Realized Then Dove Many Tommy Watched Levels

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

Work You Sometimes Job Way Out Characters Easy Find Shallow Most Parts Surface Person Apart Interesting Work Out Really Dismiss Certain Act Your Actress Why Pull

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

Life Real Life Think Characters Because Female Female Characters Am Real Go Traditional Very Roles Represent Interesting

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

Education Great History Women World School Challenge Heroes Incredible Lately Characters Introduce Status Status Quo Find Some About Great Stories Like Learn Because Want Quo Stories Interested Public Really Public School