#characters

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real. ↗

— Spike Lee

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I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person. ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#am #chance #chapters #characters #develop

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

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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

Truth is irrelevant; what matters is what people believe. ↗

— Henry Mosquera

#novel #quotes #sleeper-s-run #thriller #thriller

You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

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I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

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There are good characters and bad characters. ↗

— Matt Stone

#characters #good

Dr. Larry and Viki are the only original characters left on the show. ↗

— Michael Storm

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I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters. ↗

— Tara Strong

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