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Characters have to be seen and felt when written, not told about. Writers are merely vessels of their manifestations.


Linda Durbin

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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I'm not usually speechless, but I didn't know what to say when they told me. I felt like I was 22 ag...
DANNY GRAVES Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they cre...
CHELSEA CAIN ...stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you'...
ANGELICA BANKS You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written b...
CORNELIA FUNKE I hear so many writers say - and these are writers that I trust completely - 'I just started hea...
KAREN JOY FOWLER ...writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.
STEPHEN KING To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
DANIEL BARENBOIM Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become d...
EDMUND WHITE The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by th...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
EDNA FERBER Without writers, stories would not be written,
Without actors, stories could not be brought to ...
ANGIE-MARIE DELSANTE I have a huge fan following in Bellary, and when they met me, they told me about their problems. I h...
PAWAN KALYAN Philippine authorities have told the ministry that no naval and coast guard vessels were in those wa...
MICHEL LU For actors and writers who are being forced to shoehorn products into their work -- whether they fit...
PATRIC VERRONE I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I'v...
ANN BRASHARES Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If t...
BRENDAN GLEESON Some stories are meant to be told.
Some stories are meant to be written down, and some are mea...
JOSELLE ANNE GAYANES All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.
BEN KINGSLEY When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was t...
ANDRE RIEU In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers te...
RUTH RENDELL People need to know that right whales are in the area for the next couple of weeks. They need to put...
BARB ZOODSMA Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unh...
CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unh...
CATHERINE BOWEN Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unh...
CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to ...
WOLE SOYINKA Advanced civilizations are recognizable by their elevated contributions to humanity, not by unjustly...
T.F. HODGE You imagine, the characters I play? Can you imagine me taking them home to Linda and the kids? My ba...
BOB HOSKINS When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty. I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing.
ERIK SATIE Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as ...
KATE DICAMILLO There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets a...
SHARON OLDS I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books ar...
JOHN GREEN You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ...
TEGAN QUIN Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men...
JOYCE MAYNARD Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go ...
JO NESBO 'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about...
KEELEY HAWES Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about t...
GEORGE ORWELL We are not aware of its contents. We are only aware of what the President told us. We have not seen ...
SOMAWANSA AMERASINGHE Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I like to think I’ve written something worth reading when I cry the tears of the characters.
CARLA H. KRUEGER I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
PATRICK O'BRIAN Good fiction writers have an instinctive understanding of human nature. That's what makes stories an...
DONNA GODDARD A pilot is like the most extensive dress rehearsal you can ever imagine, because the writers are lea...
KIM CATTRALL People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favo...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writer...
DANIEL TAMMET You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to ch...
CASSANDRA CLARE In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing se...
KEN LIU Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories ...
COLUM MCCANN I have stood in a department store, and seen something written on a price tag that told me I had to ...
LEMONY SNICKET All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female character...
OPHELIA LOVIBOND It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their ...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Basically, writers write because they have something to say...Everyone has a story in them, writers ...
VIRGINIA ALISON Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer w...
MICHEL FABER We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black...
G. WILLOW WILSON While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have ha...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Those who merely perform rituals of worship are not pleasing to their Lord and Master.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and re...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and re...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength an...
KAHIL GIBRAN Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and res...
KAHLIL GIBRAN One of my concerns is that writers will begin to feel the censor on their backs, and we won't get th...
JUDY BLUME If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gat...
LORI LANSENS Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
SALMAN RUSHDIE There are fantastic stories yet to be told featuring Marvel's characters, old and new, and I'...
CHARLES SOULE It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE You should have seen me when I put on my uniform. I felt like a kid all over again.
TRACY MCGRADY In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured o...
NEIL POSTMAN A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childh...
TEA OBREHT I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same ...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Murakami's characters sense the potential liquification and destruction of everything. The aftershoc...
FRANK GALATI Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen.
WILLIAM PENN Do what good thou canst unknown, and be not vain of what ought rather to be felt than seen
WILLIAM PENN Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay, you ...
EUGENE IONESCO (Brooks) beat Durbin two times during the year. We've talked over and over about how it's hard to be...
TODD HINEGARDNER I haven't seen the article but people have told me about it and it's nice to hear.
DARREN FLETCHER At the end of the day I'm just Linda, and Linda is a single professional woman, and a lot of wom...
LINDA SANCHEZ Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt sud...
CAROL GILLIGAN That's when I went to Linda.
BERNADETTE PEREZ The old world told men merely about to live and to die.
Today men think about defeating death a...
TOBA BETA Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA People may not have told the truth about some aspects of their lives, but they rarely lied about the...
SHIRLEY SLOAT Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and th...
PATRICK KAVANAGH You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to...
GREG BERLANTI When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have l...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. ...
JAY PARINI We will be safer from terrorist attack only when we have earned the respect of all other nations ins...
THEODORE C. SORENSEN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters-one represents danger, and ...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters -- one represents danger, and...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and...
UNKNOWN Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from th...
KATE BRAVERMAN I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to...
ANDREA BARRETT Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.
DAVID LEVITHAN We will be following up with the chairman and Senator Durbin with a timely response to their request...
EVA MALECKI Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.
NEIL GAIMAN I think that 'City of Heavenly Fire' is definitely a book where all the characters are teste...
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LINDA LINGLE We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.
LINDA EVANGELISTA I'll tell you what's wrong!" he roared, "I'm trying to quit smoking!" Then he strode angrily to the ...
LINDA HOWARD We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely...
LINDA MCCARTNEY When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcas...
LINDA GRANT You cant be afraid to take a risk. You can't be afraid to take a risk because you think you migh...
LINDA MCMAHON In the end it's about the work, not an award you get for the work.
LINDA FIORENTINO For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and b...
LINDA SANCHEZ Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patt...
LINDA CHAVEZ Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.
LINDA TRIPP I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.
LINDA HUNT On days when I do not work, I am working on my image. I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointme...
LINDA EVANGELISTA Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most b...
LINDA CHAVEZ Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope ...
LINDA THOMPSON I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or...
LINDA EVANGELISTA I just fell in love with his music. I thought Yanni was Japanese. I didn't have any idea what a ...
LINDA EVANS I am a big proponent of adopting dogs through shelters and rescue operations. Having dogs in the off...
LINDA SANCHEZ I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it wh...
LINDA VESTER I eat super healthy and I'm super fit. I dabble in every type of fitness. I have a trainer and I...
LINDA EVANGELISTA The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bed...
LINDA LAVIN He used you, yeah. But what if you hadn't come? My family would have run again, but we would never h...
LINDA GERBER After 'Crocodile Dundee,' I turned down lots of stuff, most of it where I'd play the gir...
LINDA KOZLOWSKI Let me just go on record and say this: I am not for decreasing the minimum wage.
LINDA MCMAHON I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - w...
LINDA MCMAHON Ninety-eight percent of the singing I did was private singing - it was in the shower, at the dishwas...
LINDA RONSTADT