Roger Rosenblatt
Related JON MEACHAM I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorabl... PHILIP SCHULTZ I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES BEN OKRI JUNIUS T.H. WHITE Every human being has a fascinating existence, with a big cast of good and evil characters in each. ... LUCINDA RILEY VLADIMIR NABOKOV I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that su... ETGAR KERET JOHN LASSETER Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is de... GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Iago is one of the most liked characters in Shakespeare's canon, and he's the most evil, mos... KELSEY GRAMMER The universe is all about balance. The forces of light and darkness are meant to keep a check on one... SHATRUJEET NATH In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad ch... DARREN STAR VIRGINIA POSTREL COLTON CHARLES CALEB COLTON I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among 'The Baby-Sitters Club' characters.... RAINA TELGEMEIER My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch co... CHERYL HINES Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The crimin... PIERRE-AMBROISE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS Remember that a good football novel has to have the same ingredients as any other good novel: drama,... MAL PEET NAPOLEON BONAPARTE NAPOLéON BONAPARTE ANTHONY BURGESS At his heart, Shakespeare was a YA author. So many of his plays are set with high school-aged charac... ERIC WALTERS G.K. CHESTERTON God bless my daddy, ... He was the genius who created this wonderful menagerie of characters. A monk... DEAN YOUNG WINSTON CHURCHILL The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character en... RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH WINSTON CHURCHILL SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people... ROALD DAHL I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG KENNETH BRANAGH EDWARD GIBBON EDWARD HOAGLAND EDWARD HOAGLAND SARA ZARR A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the char... SUSAN MINOT ROBERT BENCHLEY JOHN ADAMS We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the l... C.K. WEBB VLADIMIR NABOKOV JOHANN VON GOETHE JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE DAVID S. GOYER DENIS DIDEROT DENIS DIDEROT MEL BROOKS MEL BROOKS CHARLES CALEB COLTON I try to find some similarities between myself and the characters, even if it's the tiniest thin... LIZZY CAPLAN WINSTON CHURCHILL There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. CARL BARKS BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the ... BEBE NEUWIRTH The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I ma... CANDACE CAMP I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and i... TARA STRONG C. JOYBELL C. JULIA GLASS ANATOLE FRANCE CARLOS FUENTES JACQUELINE BISSET JULIANNA BAGGOTT FRANZ KAFKA J.K. ROWLING Everyone has a different interpretation of characters we know and love from Shakespeare, from 'M... PHILLIPA SOO Astonishingly, we now see more trust between French, Germans and the Poles than between the British ... MATTHIAS WISSMANN WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The code is riddled with Seinfeld references. Every variable has been named after Seinfeld character... DAN SCHRADER I feel that for the story of 'Romeo and Juliet' to be impactful, it has to be believable, an... HAILEE STEINFELD ANDY SERKIS Early on, (Rowling) created characters you can relate to. DAVE LAMBERT The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I s... JOHN CHRISTOPHER I AM NOT A WRITER.T.N. SUAREZ Once the world has been created, the fantasy author still has to bring the story's characters to... TONY BRADMAN I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches i... DAVID WALLIAMS Wolverine is one of the best characters ever created in fiction. I blew it by not coming up with the... STAN LEE We absolutely must battle with every bit of determination we can muster to root out the harm that wo... WESS STAFFORD I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them a... TARA STRONG SETH MACFARLANE Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of chara... NANCY KRESS All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associat... ADHIR KALYAN ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. VICTORIA ABRIL ABRAHAM LINCOLN ABRAHAM LINCOLN ABRAHAM LINCOLN I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits a... DANIEL SHARMAN WHIT STILLMAN ETHAN CANIN VLADIMIR NABOKOV I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a write... BRYAN COGMAN [Publishers Weekly said] 13 Steps Down ... all her trademark virtues: vivid characters, a plot addic... RUTH RENDELL NICK KROLL The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities o... SALVATORE QUASIMODO G.K. CHESTERTON You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your ... JOEL COEN RAY BRADBURY
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If individuals have no vices, their virtues may be of use to us. 
Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no mo... 
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No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their vir... 
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. 
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. 
Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. 
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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. 
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. 
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. 
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Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the... 
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I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small event... 
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. 
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We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. 
We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates 
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is... 
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. 
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. 
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. 
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For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. 
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To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do. 
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You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation. 
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Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised. 
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