#characters

And the only sign of life is the ticking of the pen, introducing characters to memory like old friends. ↗

— Fish

#story #writing #life

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr. ↗

— John Green

#characters #humor #business

Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters. ↗

— Teresa Mummert

#reality #writing #writing-process #writing-process

Don't let your ego write checks your character can't cash. another from the world of tweets ↗

— Robin Glasser

#characters #writing-advice

If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#obsessed #obsessions #write #you

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

#boring #challenging #characters #creative #creative person

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. ↗

— George Bancroft

#characters #depend #enough #exciting #lives

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#characters #flawed #i #in other words #other

Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies. ↗

— Uwe Boll

#built #characters #disappointed #game #gamers

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#change #characters #choose #count #friends