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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
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Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
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Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
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Everyone has three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.
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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
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Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) -
I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
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I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a writer.
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I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along.
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I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.
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I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.
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