#characters

Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told. ↗

— Robert McKee

#courage #creativity #passion #story #storytelling

Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012! ↗

— Stella Atrium

#characters #writing #writing-craft #writing-life #family

A book is simply a snap shot of the full story. ↗

— Erica Goros

#life-stories #stories #life

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters. ↗

— Plato

#grow #human #men #out #states

I love flawed female characters, duking it out. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#female #female characters #flawed #i #i love

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#characters #great #human #human behaviour #root

With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#characters #drawn #experience #fill #films

I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know, it's nice to make people laugh sometimes. ↗

— Julian Sands

#asked #broader #characters #doing #dramas

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#figure #get #how #i #i do

Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved. ↗

— Thorne Smith

#casually #characters #i #improved #into