#hara

If you're writing a book that takes place in New York in the moment, you can't not write about 9-11; you can't not integrate it. My main character's view is the Statue of Liberty and the Trade Center. It doesn't have to take over, but it has to be acknowledged. ↗

— Richard Price

#acknowledged #book #center #character #integrate

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#characters #her #his #novelist #personal

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#acquire #already #also #assist #attracting

I love playing characters that are bigger than life and maybe have a darker side that they present to the world. Those are good characters. ↗

— Randy Quaid

#characters #darker #good #i #i love

I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor. ↗

— Randy Quaid

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The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#exhausts #his #imitates #men #novels

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech. ↗

— Quintilian

#architect #character #creator #distinguish #faculty

The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. ↗

— Quintilian

#contemplation #exercised #matter #mind #moulded

I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#big #big believer #certain #certain extent #certainly