Characters Quotes

I love fictional characters...they can't break your heart.

When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!

You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.

Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?

The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so dearly love in your life, because they are so good.

We are all characters in the book of life.

I turned to the window. A single raindrop fell against it, and seeing my reflection in the glass, I suddenly knew why Finn’s eyes were familiar.They were exactly like mine.

God is the source of life, honour and wealth.

Anyone can be a story. Everyone is.

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

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

You can't write a sory until you've felt. Breathe it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story.

Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.

I should know better than anyone--you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.

I don’t know why Kate was trying to impress him, as far as I could see the guy had all the allure and social grace of a psychotic slug with halitosis and a bad head cold.

Yes, I’ve killed! I’ve killed as indiscriminately as God! And yes, I will kill again. I must.

And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course.

Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.

I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that.

You are strong enough to overcome the situation!

When giving up is not an option, you survive at any cost.

George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.

I knew so many gangsters, and I call on that experience with them for characters.

One of the key secrets of great writing is knowing where to start and when to stop.

...you mean you don't fit characters into a plot? excatly...

When I imagine changing places with her I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending---I mean the kind of ending when you never think any more about the characters.

The best plot twists are the ones you didn't expect.

She's only a girl. What kind of men are you?''Dead ones?' asked Drith, who yanked the door open and put her sword through Narses' throat.

No one wants to rattle the cage of a "crazy" person whose family tends to snap.

If a fae sorcerer, or sorcerers, are using necromancy to raise the dead they need to be stopped. No matter what happens, we need to bring a reckoning.--Catherine

I never draw blood on a first date.

Whether a character is good or evil depends on your perspective.

Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their vo

You’re the girl that I have been wanting. You’re the girl that I could see myself with forever. And most importantly, you’re the girl that I’ve fallen in love with.

And you, are Ruin, the chosen Carnificem, and WOE is what you're all about, it's your purpose. Doom and Gloom. ~Caliber Creed

There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn

Forget the fictional characters – how many authors are being stopped on the street?

There was something about Maria Graham that you could believe in – a slice of home. If not unique in her travelling, she was at least extraordinary.

What are you? The pregnant MacGyver?” “Best compliment I’ve had in a while.

I can’t seem to shake this perpetual awareness of being Molly.

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

The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.

I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.

I trust my characters. They know their stories better than I do.

Well tarnation you're a meanie pants aren't you?" ~Miss Mary~

I admired so many things about you. Almost everything. But I don’t want to wind up like you. I don’t want to starve to death, all alone on some island inside my own head. Hopeless.

Whatever you guys call it. Man up. Get your panties out of a wad. Put on your big boy shorts. Grow a set.

Just me, my music, and the voices in my head.

Writing complex characters is the penultimate exercise in empathy.