#characters

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show. ↗

— Major Taylor

#cardinal #characters #clean #clean living #greatest

I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#action #always #ass #attracted #blonde

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother. ↗

— Kristin Scott Thomas

#characters #different #different characters #difficult #find

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters. ↗

— Jessica Alba

#characters #come #complicated #feels #go

The cast, led by the extraordinary Jennifer Lawrence, is absolutely wonderful across the board. It's such a pleasure to see how they've embodied the characters and brought them to life. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#across #board #brought #cast #characters

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. ↗

— John M. Ford

#characters #chosen #concentrating #effect #fictional

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#characters #dreams #female #general #i

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#brilliant #characters #including #main #me

The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#creative-process #fiction #realism #truth #writing

I have closed my study door on the world and shut myself away with people of my imagination. For nearly sixty years I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. I have peeped shamelessly into hearts and bathroom closets. I have leaned over shoulders to follow the movements of quills as they write love letters, wills and confessions. I have watched as lovers love, murderers murder and childern play their make-believe. Prisons and brothels have opened their doors to me; galleons and camel trains have transported me across sea and sand; centuries and continents have fallen away at my bidding. I have spied upon the misdeeds of the mighty and witnessed the nobility of the meek. I have bent so low over sleepers in their beds that they might have felt my breath on their faces. I have seen their dreams. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#fiction #writing #dreams