All Quotes By Tag: Characters
“Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.”
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“Then you are a poet?’ she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.’No not at all,’ he waved his hand. ‘I am merely a character in a poem.”
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“It’s not a romance, it’s a love story.”
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“Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character who appeared only once in a short story waits now in the wings, concealed by the curtain, for his next appearance on-stage. Not one of them has ever broken free of his familial ties with me and disappeared for ever – at least, not within the confines of my heart.”
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“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.”
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“It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.”
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“The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.”
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“Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.”
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“In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!”(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)”
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“I’d write of people and places like I knew, and I’d make my characters talk everyday English; and I’d let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I’d give them a chance, Anne–I’d give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you’d have to go a long piece to find them…But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing, Anne.”
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“If you’re silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.”
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“A winner is not someone who wins. It’s someone who tries and isn’t afraid to lose.”
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“In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).”
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“Be sure not to discuss your hero’s state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.”(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)”
“This isn’t the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.”
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