If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

Dwight L. Moody

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You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Frank Miller

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Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

Lisa Kleypas

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I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

Pat Conroy

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I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

Aaliyah

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How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.

Salma Hayek

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That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

R. A. Salvatore

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Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

Khaled Hosseini

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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Isabel Allende

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From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Nadine Gordimer

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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Jackie Collins

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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

Jackie Collins

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I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

Ben Stiller

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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.

Irwin Shaw

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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Dan Brown

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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

Margaret Atwood

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I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

Orlando Bloom

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Physically, my character is stronger than him which is totally unrealistic, ... Because in reality he can ... kill me. I think it has a lot to do with (him being) the youngest of all of his brothers, and I think he got beat up a lot.

Pauly Shore

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I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

Jack Kirby

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I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

Jack Kirby

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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Pete Townshend

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I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

R. L. Stine

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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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None of my characters have really had jobs.

Lauren Graham

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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

Jackson Browne

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I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.

Russell Crowe

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

Javier Bardem

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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.

Russell Brand

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I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

Josh Hartnett

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If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.

Dwight L. Moody

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Frank Miller

Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

Lisa Kleypas

I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

Pat Conroy

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

Aaliyah

How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.

Salma Hayek

That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from that comes their truth. In a way, I'm using them to try to find my own answers in life.

R. A. Salvatore

Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

Khaled Hosseini

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Isabel Allende

From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Nadine Gordimer

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Jackie Collins

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

Jackie Collins

I'm always willing to endure humiliation on behalf of my characters.

Ben Stiller

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.

Irwin Shaw

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Dan Brown

I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

Margaret Atwood

I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

Orlando Bloom

Physically, my character is stronger than him which is totally unrealistic, ... Because in reality he can ... kill me. I think it has a lot to do with (him being) the youngest of all of his brothers, and I think he got beat up a lot.

Pauly Shore

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

Jack Kirby

I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

Jack Kirby

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Pete Townshend

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

R. L. Stine

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

None of my characters have really had jobs.

Lauren Graham

I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.

Jackson Browne

I'm a virtuoso in my job in that there's not an actor I can't go into a scene with and be absolutely confident that, whatever is required of my character, I can do it.

Russell Crowe

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

Javier Bardem

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.

Russell Brand

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

Josh Hartnett

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