#hara

My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#cape #characters #city #drawn #dwellers

The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#always #approach #characters #fiction #flexible

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody. ↗

— Justin Cronin

#courage #goodness #inspirational #moral-courage #unsung-heroes

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them. ↗

— Peter MacNicol

#accept #acting #being #character #covering

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths. ↗

— Jena Malone

#down #find #matter #small #strip

I succeeded on sort of chutzpah and charm. No technique at all, didn't know what I was doing, but it worked and the character suited me. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#charm #doing #i #know #me

It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it. ↗

— Maria Jeritza

#artist #caught #character #conviction #creative

And my father was a comic. He could play any musical instrument. He loved to perform. He was a wonderfully comedic character. He had the ability to dance and sing and charm and analyze poetry. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#analyze #any #character #charm #comedic

Ann: You didn’t cause my miscarriages. But you are committed to transforming me to be like you. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#faith #miscarriage #trust #faith

I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#before #characters #exploring #gets #give