#characters

We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect for them. A good writer won't waste their time arguing with the characters they create...It is almost always a waste of time and people tend to stare when you do! ↗

— C.K. Webb

#ck-webb #editing #insanity #re-writing #life

A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose. ↗

— Nusrat Sultana

#characters #confidence #hope #inspirational #life

Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [...]. ↗

— Arlaina Tibensky

#books #characters #emotions #reading #life

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#isolation #loneliness #personality #solitude #love

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#plot #art

Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions." (Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886) ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#creative-process #state-of-mind #writing #writing-process

I don't think there is a guy that played more gay characters than I have done in my life. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#done #gay #guy #i #life

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters. ↗

— Joe Hill

#characters #loss-of-faith #love #women #faith

The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#characters #fact #i #like #made

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things. ↗

— Todd Barry

#being #being funny #call #characters #comedy