#w

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd. ↗

— Joel Coen

#approach #characters #conceiving #creations #even

You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people. ↗

— Joel Coen

#character #class #doing #individual #make

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#beings #constant #human #human beings #i

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#i #interpret #invitations #my own #own

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#dead #feel #i #idea #much

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money. ↗

— Catherine Keener

#four #i #lot #maybe #money

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. ↗

— Paul Coffey

#better #get #good #hard #natural

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#every #find #man #nothing #successful

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly. ↗

— William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

#bad #being #conceive #exercise #freely

You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on the inside. ↗

— Alan Cohen

#integrity #life #living #matches #outside