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With thrillers, I tend to concentrate on the research and pace more than the characters. Ravi Subramanian

Research Characters More Thrillers Tend Concentrate Than Pace

After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not strong enough. I have consciously rectified that in my next four books. In any case, it's true that women run the world, and men would do better to listen to them! Ravi Subramanian

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Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate. Raymond E. Feist

Success Try Characters Would Would-Be Magician Charm Risky Lead Had Put Also Mostly Due Duplicate Choice Certain Hard Earlier

I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books. Raymond E. Feist

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Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. Raymond Queneau

Value Characters General Having Individual True True Story Odyssey Historical Fiction Story Either Which Placing Iliad Imaginary Presenting

Some of my acting heroes have built careers on playing characters who do horrendous things - they're repellent and lovable. They're not likable, but they're lovable. I think Christine is one of those characters. Rebecca Hall

Heroes Think Those Characters Some Horrendous Likable Built Lovable Acting Who Things Playing Christine Careers

It's not often you get female characters who don't fit into a box. Rebecca Hall

You Characters Box Female Female Characters Fit Get Often Who

Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive task. Or, to put it more accurately, you need a lot more than intuition. You need plot and characters. You need a setting. You need a theme that is relevant and supported by your text. Rebecca Serle

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The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories. Rebel Wilson

Better Characters About More Performing Know America American Stories

In Australia, I wrote lots of little plays and put them on, and then I worked on a few different TV shows, like the Australian equivalent of 'SNL.' I would write and perform all of my characters. Rebel Wilson

I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story in song. To me, that's so beautiful, all those painted characters, all those travels and adventures. Regina Spektor

Beautiful Me Song Think Related Those Characters More Writers Songwriters Adventures Odyssey Fiction Fiction Writers Story Painted Travels

It's so fun to just slip on different hats and play different characters, even if it's just for a minute. Reid Scott

Slip Characters Minute Hats Just Different Different Characters Fun Even Play

Once the writers got to know the actors, they would include certain things - personality-wise - for the characters because they knew you liked that sort of thing. Retta

You Once Characters Would Writers Knew Know Liked Sort Because Got Certain Certain Things Include Actor Thing Things

The thing with videogame characters is that they tend to be really undercooked, and people don't take the time to really flesh them out. They don't treat them with the respect that a writer writing characters in any other medium would treat their character. Rhianna Pratchett

Time Character Respect People Writing Treat Other Medium Out Characters Would Tend Writer Take Any Them Really Flesh Thing

I always liked to draw, and when I was a kid, the Internet wasn't big at all, so I would go to Internet cafes and search Google images for cartoon characters and save it to my USB drive. Rich Brian

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I loved the Scarecrow and the Tin Man and the Lion and you could kind of see the actors' faces in them. It wasn't an entirely new face sculpted around them. What made those characters so human and appealing to me was seeing those great actors underneath there. They weren't lost behind a bunch of appliances. Rich Moore

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The hallmark of a good comedy is that it can make you laugh, but it can also take you to the point where you're in love with these characters, and you want to see them be happy, and you want to feel that emotion for them. Rich Moore

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I would be lucky to be remembered as Harry Crane. That being said, I think it's a goal for most actors to have the opportunity to play a variety of characters, so I hope any non-'Mad Men' role feels as separate as possible from Harry. Rich Sommer

I've played a lot of these characters that aren't particularly pleasant and pretty powerful, bad people, and one thing I've discovered is that there's a real stillness to these guys. Richard Brake

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I can't bear shopping. I can choose clothes for my characters, but not for myself. I've got no dress sense. Or I've lost it. Richard C. Armitage

Myself Shopping Lost Clothes Sense Characters Dress Bear Got Choose

There's a very strong force in Tolkien's characters. Richard C. Armitage

Strong Characters Force Very Tolkien

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