Characters Quotes

I’m a blank canvas that I can paint however I desire. For the first time ever, I get to be the character in my own fantasy land.

Writers are in many ways like demi-gods. With one stroke of a pen they can give life to a character, or strike them from existence, with nary a twinge of grief at their passing.

We are the Dragon-Hearted.

Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.

If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything. Be friendly and then go doyour best. That will make you special, too!

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.

Some fictions become fixtures in the real city. Their stories are so powerful that they leap off the page on to the streets, irreversibly altering the place where they were set.

There are only two things you’ll ever need to know about me, Farin—and you should know them well. I’m very smart, and I’m very rich.

A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.

Each time I discovered a potential link between one character’s story and another’s, several more connections would reveal themselves, like a beautiful, complex web spinning itself.

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.

And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.

Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and agony? Was this too small an ambition?

Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.

Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.

It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.

Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives

His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.

Typically, we start out with enthusiasm and then grow unsure--sometimes about everything.

Characters are just extensions of my madness.

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.

Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.

When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life

So, what you're saying is, just because a warrior is a woman doesn't mean they yhave to wear a chain mail bikini? Like, they could wear...real armor?

You won’t shoot me.""People tend to overestimate my character, " I say quietly. "They think that because I’m small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can’t possibly be cruel. But they’re wrong.

A writer sets up his own amazing experiment: his work of fiction.

I spend more time with the living, than the dead now.

An author who does not support his or her characters does not deserve the support of readers. EVER!

Growing up, I loved the tale of Peter Rabbit and also books on Pippi Longstocking. Pippi was a girl who had so much fun and was very daring. My sons loved all the Dr. Seuss books

I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir, " she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them for me.

If there weren’t so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.

I am convinced that "all ladies are not the same". Some have pretty faces, others have beautiful characters. Some have facial make-ups, others have mental make-ups!

But sometimes a shattered view is the only way to see truth.

I wish stories were kinder to their characters, " Maddie said. "But I guess trouble is more interesting to read about.

She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told her to be.

He held up his hand, and in it was... Oh, God. The neon-pink vibrator, glowing in the dark now. It was following her, stalking her, all the way down the yellow brick road to hell.

Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis.

I know I'm not to blame for what he did. And I know, too, that I am strong inside--stronger than I ever realized.

If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.

Sadie gave her head an exaggerated scratch. ‘Don’t come too close if you know what’s good for you, these nits are on steroids.

Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of their manifestations.

...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...

I'm 20 years old. I spend my days in a dictionary and half my mind in Fantasy.

She resisted the urge to run, only prey ran [and] Niko had no intention on becoming prey

What's a jagoff?" Stich asked."It's like a jerkoff, except it's you, " Kat said.

That's what novels are: They're amalgams of archetypes, collections of random traits one observes in other people through life, blended into fresh characters.

He stood and stepped up behind her. Why not? It's the truth. I like spending time with you. You're strong, beautiful and brave. What more could a man ask for?

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.