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Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.


Alexander McCall Smith

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ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH ...But although the rules are vague
And widely disregarded now
Some precepts remain: live ...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
ALAN FURST What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any mor...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN Putting Mr. Polopetsi in charge of the investigation is like putting a rabbit in charge of the airpo...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH The winds must come from somewhere when they blow…There must be reasons why the leaves decay.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they cre...
CHELSEA CAIN I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don&#...
WEN HO LEE What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
PAT BARKER Why not imagine a talk with a pumpkin? Why not imagine going off for a drive with a friendly pumpkin...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want ...
BENNIE THOMPSON I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to inv...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, full...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
W. E. B. GRIFFIN Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies...
AARON SPELLING She remembered love, though, and a feeling of warmth. It was like remembering light, or the glow tha...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom yo...
NICK CAVE I went to Catholic school. Do as you're told; don't ask questions and you will be illuminate...
KATHERINE HELMOND Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it...
FETTY WAP You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON I don't need to have someone tell me what I'm going to be entertained by.
BEN HUH You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.
CHRIS ROCK 7 Rules to a Happy Life:

1. Be humble
2. Don’t worry
3. Don't settle for les...
GERMANY KENT I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences ...
LEWIS THOMAS If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good busin...
STUART ROSE I don't feel like I need to tell any lies. You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behin...
BETTY WRIGHT One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is t...
NANCY HORAN You can hide so much behind theatrics, and I don't need to do that any more.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are fun...
GLENN HOWERTON To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you ...
TOM LEHMAN You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo...
JOHN BOLTON Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their re...
GEORGE S. PATTON I don't have any focus groups on talent and programming. If I need five people in a mall to be p...
ROGER AILES You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need...
MICHELLE OBAMA Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
JACK VANCE You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be i...
BERTOLT BRECHT Having been an actor in Hollywood for a certain amount of time, I always felt a pressure to be sort ...
JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting character...
HAROLD RAMIS I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am righ...
GARY CLARK, JR. I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to hav...
ALAN CRANSTON The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really l...
JIM ROHN I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.'...
NATHAN FILLION I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with yo...
GABRIEL IGLESIAS Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just wa...
RACHELLE LEFEVRE Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is present...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Don't tell me how to do my job. I don't come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
BILLY CONNOLLY There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don...
DAVID LEVITHAN You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be...
CAMERON DIAZ I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anythi...
ZOE SALDANA I like to think I am the best there is at what I do, and so I have conquered the world like Alexande...
ALEX SPANOS My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they're two-dimensional, I will do them. ...
CHARLES DANCE I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.
JANE YOLEN I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly writte...
STANLEY ELKIN Don't ever think, no matter how old you are, that you don't need to be coached.
PEYTON MANNING I'd be resentful if shareholders who don't know the business tried to tell me what to do.
S. TRUETT CATHY Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth ...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT I'm here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don't follow what you've been t...
J. COLE The hardest moment comes BEFORE you get started. #DontGiveUpNow
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN My view on working with any government in the world is that there are things that you will agree upo...
TIM COOK You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.
ALAN AUTRY A good novel is something that challenges perception, that allows you to see the world anew through ...
JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT I don't want to be agitated so much on television. I don't need to watch any more agitation.
ANDIE MACDOWELL I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do ...
JACQUELINE BISSET Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know...
PAT BARKER The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're ju...
SAMUEL LARSEN You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.
DOLLY PARTON What I look for these days is that I don't have long speeches, the characters gets to sit down a...
ALAN ARKIN You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always...
MALIK BENDJELLOUL I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature...
ANDY SERKIS If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS Do you know what the world will be saved by? I'll tell you. It'll be saved by the human spir...
SHERWIN B. NULAND If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, an...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don't. Quests to faraway p...
MARIE KONDO For an author, the nice characters aren't much fun. What you want are the screwed up characters....
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JOHN CLEESE What we do not need are career politicians that simply run for office to be somebody with a big titl...
RON JOHNSON That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in...
BILL O'REILLY I don't differentiate between black and Latino actors. We're in the same struggle to be repr...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls....
ALICE MUNRO You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was ...
WARREN LITTLEFIELD I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don...
MACKENZIE ROSMAN With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to p...
RACHEL MCADAMS Jay Leno told me once, 'Don't do jokes about things you don't know about.'
BILL ENGVALL [Referring to passage by Alice Munro] Finally, the passage contradicts a form of bad advice often gi...
FRANCINE PROSE I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies wi...
QUENTIN TARANTINO I definitely like to play characters that don't fit any kind of mold; that are slightly offbeat,...
ZULEIKHA ROBINSON I think that nothing is impossible when you want to fulfill a dream. A lot of people will tell you t...
THALIA If certain books are to be termed 'immigrant fiction,' what do we call the rest? Native fict...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't kn...
ANDERSON COOPER You get those hunger pains. 'I am so hungry. We don't have any food. What are we going to ea...
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MCCALL HOYLE It's not about sour grapes. It's about a fair shot.
ED MCCALL The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love merc...
BRIDGES MCCALL To pull this together in such a short time, and for the public to respond so wholeheartedly is amazi...
DAVINA MCCALL I'm afraid you have to leave us -
DAVINA MCCALL They're all... looking... a little... nervous right now
DAVINA MCCALL I knew it was really, really popular when my granny told me she watched it, and was addicted. When y...
DAVINA MCCALL The people who go into that house are a cross section of British culture. They're not freaks.
DAVINA MCCALL He's such a lovely fellow, that Lester Piggott.
DAVINA MCCALL It's easy to present - out with a very, very rowdy crowd talking to the camera,
DAVINA MCCALL I can't believe you are showing no remorse.
DAVINA MCCALL We knew coming in that this would be a litmus test for our team. Who better to see where you're at t...
JIM MCCALL Our labor agreement was one that the membership overwhelmingly ratified, and it turned out to be a p...
DAVID MCCALL Our labor agreement was one that the membership overwhelmingly ratified, and it turned out to be a p...
DAVID MCCALL Do not wait and hope to be discovered...make yourself so you cannot be denied!
JAMIE MCCALL We've eight players involved in the panel, and that would be a big lump out of our squad,
MARK MCCALL It's a chance for us to show off to these companies.
DEAN MCCALL We are just geeks who want to pull the two cities together and pool our resources.
DEAN MCCALL The project (we) are working on is a community based, public-need project. The people we are focusin...
DEAN MCCALL See it, learn it, do it ALL.
JAMIE MCCALL He was all right in high school. Girls liked him. He was cool.
DON MCCALL We rode bikes together sometimes.
DON MCCALL Some of the guys who come in my barber shop said they saw him and he was saying to come down to the ...
DON MCCALL As a coach, you remain optimistic. You go into every battle, every contest, thinking if we do what's...
ED MCCALL You're playing against a stacked deck. I think that's all we're asking for was a fair shot for our c...
ED MCCALL It wasn't about kicking them out. This was not a proposal made out of sour grapes.
ED MCCALL We've got mobile homes rolled into mobile homes. We've got mobile homes blown into houses. It's all ...
DAVID MCCALL Our labor agreement was one that the membership overwhelmingly ratified, and it turned out to be a p...
DAVID MCCALL There's an advantage to belonging to an international. One obvious thing (affecting union members) i...
DAVID MCCALL There's an advantage to belonging to an international.
DAVID MCCALL We've broadened people's responsibilities, and we are far more productive than we use to be.
DAVID MCCALL Many of these people have never, ever had a livable wage. It will also give them benefits like paid ...
DAVID MCCALL We do not want people to be here. We want them out of harm's way.
FRANK MCCALL You never say never. People in Florida never saw anything like [Hurricane] Andrew.
FRANK MCCALL