All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.
Alice Hoffman
Related When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o... ANUJ SOMANY All movies are good if we are attentive to the social message that it conveys often in a subdued ton... ANUJ SOMANY Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN For all men are equal,in order to show man that you are equal,then always do things lesser than your... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To prove that all men are equal, rich or poor,nature has made it compulsory for all to breath the sa... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The farmer in us makes us do the things we do SOTONYE ANGA But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat... LEWIS CARROLL Wherever you are, be all there. CRAIG GROESCHEL The only presence I ever truly need is the presence of God! DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to pla... WAYNE DYER When you are on your purpose, your preoccupation isn't what you don't have yet. You've already drunk... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER There is a farmer in every person. It is the farmer in you that makes you sow and reap SOTONYE ANGA The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of th... MILAN KUNDERA All my scenes are in my bedroom trying on corsets, ... There's a little bit of nudity, but it's tast... ANNE MORRISON My Southern heritage is a big part of who I am. I grew up around people who seemed like characters b... FORTUNE FEIMSTER Who are you?” I asked. “Are we playing that game again?” she asked me with a nice smile. ... NICO J. GENES All the characters in my book are fictional, but every single one of them was inspired by someone I ... SANELA RAMIC JURICH I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am. MAIARA WALSH We have now reached hypersonic speed technological advances have excelled since the sixties in 20 ye... GARY F EVANS... This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they ... MILAN KUNDERA When you have the strength to stand up for yourself ,the ones you love and the dignity and honor to ... GARY F EVANS... We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted... JOHN GREEN Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Ar... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my s... BARRY MCGEE I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to wr... RUTH OZEKI Who are you? Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies? Have you created a life ... LANA DEL REY Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay, you ... EUGENE IONESCO It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going ... CAREW PAPRITZ The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on ... RACHEL JOYCE I don't think I'm like any of the characters I've played - they're all really far from who I am. CHRISTIAN BALE All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we... DAVID LAGERCRANTZ People are much more complicated in real life, but my characters are as subtle and nuanced as I can ... KEN FOLLETT I like characters who are contradictory. DAVID BERGEN There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES In the books, I meet characters which I really like and I think that they are like me... but so far ... DEYTH BANGER The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with... LOUIS THEROUX Everyone, this is the new girl. Elder knows her. New girl, this is everyone.” A few people look up... BETH REVIS All of my characters are less than perfect. BARBARA PARK When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people... ROALD DAHL I like that these characters aren't perfect. I love that there are all these strong female character... ANDY YARDLEY Some characters touch your heart, then tear it apart. DASHA LEVITSKY The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS All the characters are good and bad. None of them are soft and fluffy. ANDREA ROTH I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books ar... JOHN GREEN Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who ... MISSI PYLE Their sexual knowledge, attitudes, behaviors are all shaped in part by the characters in stories tha... DALE KUNKEL All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they ar... PARK CHAN-WOOK Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my fir... IRVIN D. YALOM The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses t... GEOFF JOHNS Believe it or not, the characters are all like people I went to art school with in the '70s. DANIEL CLOWES There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real li... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully... DAVID NEVINS I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balanc... EVAN HUNTER ...her dearest friends are characters in books. SARAH J. MAAS who are you really? you are not a name or a height, or a weight or a gende... M.K I wanted to show these people who he really was. And pain always did that, took the insides out." VERONICS ROTH We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be. CHARLIE FLETCHER You are not born with beauty, your beauty is created by who you are. Your inner beauty is more impor... EMILY COUSSONS Blues is the bedrock of everything I do. All the characters in my plays, their ideas and attitudes, ... AUGUST WILSON The parallels between a stage and a book are compelling. You, like all authors, create 'characte... NANCY KRESS I know who I am, and I know too that I am capable of being not only the characters I have named, but... MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: th... ERIC ROBERTS I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the ... SUZANNE COLLINS I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to he... DEMETRI MARTIN All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness... ALEXANDER SKARSGARD The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up. MIKE BOVE I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult. DANIEL CLOWES I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a d... CATHERINE MARY STEWART . . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, ... DAVID MITCHELL Ihr könnt nicht alle regieren. Besser, ihr bringt eucht jetzt gleich gegenseitig um", empfiehlt die... NINA MACKAY I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day... ALAN MOORE Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate. ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I form... TAHEREH MAFI It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are f... ABIGAIL ADAMS All the major Cherokee characters are there. JAMES BRADLEY Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are. AMIT RAY Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal deve... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. KATHRYN LASKY A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of... KURT VONNEGUT J. K. Rowling has said that she was bullied in school. She was a daydreamer and had her nose in book... ALEXANDRA ROBBINS If you read all your history books, there are no women in them. CAITLIN MORAN You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of mysel... AARON STANFORD In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in m... ISABEL ALLENDE Dreams are like inserting new doors! Dedication like your door lock , Passion like your bolts and Fa... GAVHI THERON Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. HENRY DAVID THOREAU I am in your thoughts. You are in my dreams. ANTHONY T.HINCKS There is a similarity in the kinds of characters I gravitate to that goes back to my earliest years ... EUGENE LEVY Pretending something doesn't matter doesn't make it matter less. JENNIFER LYNN BARNES Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS Pilot scripts are particularly difficult to write because you have to introduce all the characters w... TINA FEY Yes, I know that now that there is truth in beauty and beauty in truth. My nature is to be depressiv... ABIGAIL GEORGE I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves. ZOE LISTER-JONES Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters ... MORRIS GLEITZMAN
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DUSTIN HOFFMAN Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon. ABBIE HOFFMAN The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never a... ABBIE HOFFMAN Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family,... DUSTIN HOFFMAN Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law. ABBIE HOFFMAN Once you get the right image the details aren't that important. ABBIE HOFFMAN Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information. ABBIE HOFFMAN A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station. ABBIE HOFFMAN Never impose your language on people you wish to reach. ABBIE HOFFMAN Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. ABBIE HOFFMAN To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars o... ABBIE HOFFMAN Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade.... ABBIE HOFFMAN The only way to support a revolution is to make your own. ABBIE HOFFMAN The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more... ABBIE HOFFMAN It's beginning to bump up, but we don't think that it's nearly as vulnerable as some other technolog... ALAN HOFFMAN Everyone is always trying to smoke out the Fed. ALAN HOFFMAN We will see volatility in the technology sector as always, but longer term we think the U.S. equity ... ALAN HOFFMAN Intel has become a fairly significant barometer. ALAN HOFFMAN I think still we're in a trading range that we've been in since October, ALAN HOFFMAN There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid ar... ALAN HOFFMAN This certainly makes the case for investing in companies that export. Their costs are dollar based a... ALAN HOFFMAN The problem for the next seven weeks will be this tug-of-war. Until we start seeing earnings taking ... ALAN HOFFMAN I would buy good retailers -- especially on dips, ALAN HOFFMAN In this volatile market, the best procedure is to buy on dips. There are going to be days when the m... ALAN HOFFMAN Your customers are always a bottomless well of surprises. REID HOFFMAN Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important. LISA HOFFMAN Once you get the right image the details aren't that important. ABBIE HOFFMAN The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as gr... ABBIE HOFFMAN The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tent... ABBIE HOFFMAN If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good. ABBIE HOFFMAN In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win. 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