Top 1200 Literary Characters Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Very thorough in the rehearsal process but more in terms of just understanding the characters, understanding where the actors are at with discovering those characters for themselves, and just setting an overall emotional tone for the piece as opposed to necessarily getting things up on their feet or staging scenes.

You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel where you feel like the author is talking to the reader over the characters' heads is in a bad place.

Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and partake of the wine of friendship; were they to remain locked in, they would forcibly break down the walls. It is they who force the writer to tell their stories.

The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me.

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?

Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

I think playing the glamour card is a disastrous error as a literary writer.

The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology.

'Thunderbolts' I was mostly attracted to because I really wanted to write Punisher and Elektra and Deadpool, who are characters I have always really enjoyed. But the funny thing is that over time, I came to really like Red Leader; he became one of my favorite guys in the book. Sometimes characters surprise you.

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.

I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process.

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

I think part of the pressure put on 'strong female characters' comes from the fact that there is so often 'the team girl,' who must be all things to all people. Part of avoiding that is having as many female characters as I can, and allowing them to thrive in their own right, not inside a framework they didn't ask for and don't want.

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers.

Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.

'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.

Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

When I was asked to compose a score for... 'Palo Alto,' I first thought to myself, 'What is the house that these characters would want to live in?' I wanted to paint a picture and color scheme that I could work around. I gently apply different daubs to see what fits to match the color I have in mind with these characters.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.

I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills.

It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.

You don't meet computer game characters when you use a controller. You control computer game characters.

I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.

I love my job. It's such a privilege to be able to play such complicated characters. Growing up, I wanted to be a billion different things. I realized in order for that to happen, I don't have to be them all because the characters I want to play require such research and such a transformation to make that work - that's something that I love doing.

Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.

Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.

We writers - we're the snowflakes of the literary world. We each have our own shape.

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

The literary trappings and moralizing of science fiction I find insufficiently compelling.

One thing for sure is it will be written in the Icelandic language. All of my literary work is.

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

he beauty of this world [of comics] is there are so many stories to tell, and there's so many wonderful characters. Wonderful characters we haven't even begun to introduce - it's a world that is infinitely expandable.

People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors

I actually don't know much about Jaclyn Moriarty's process or where her stories come from or who inspired her characters. I just know that reading her books feels like sitting with friends. Her characters feel alive.

plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.

The literary world has to compete with YouTube, Instagram, PlayStation, Xbox, Hulu.

I love playing different characters, and I would love to be playing different characters in movies or TV shows, instead of continuing my career with the WWE.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.

I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and even painful to explore your own weakness, but it gives you genuine emotion. Characters in fiction come alive because of the believability of their emotional lives and that is what I strive to create.

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.

In Bangkok's budding literary scene, Prabda Yoon sits at the centre.

In Hollywood, the guy who plays Batman and Spiderman also plays normal characters. The biggest stars in the world want to play different characters. We can't give the excuse that because an actor played a superhero in his previous film, his next one won't work.

I think people are excited because, even watching 'Boy Meets World,' you can tell that those characters are going to do something when they get older. I think people are excited to see characters they grew up with continue.

In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.

Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies is a passionate, intensely emotional experience for me. I'm detached from the characters only to the degree that I have to be in order to write honestly about them.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.