Karen Joy Fowler
Related Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they cre... CHELSEA CAIN CASSANDRA CLARE I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to... ANDREA BARRETT GENE SIMMONS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. ... PADDY CONSIDINE ALISON SWEENEY RYAN GOSLING PARK CHAN-WOOK There are days that I wake up and I complain, and when I complain I pinch myself and say, 'that&... ENRIQUE IGLESIAS A. S. BYATT CECELIA AHERN CHRIS ROCK I don't understand some of the music I hear on MTV or the radio, because they don't mention ... DARON MALAKIAN KEHLANI MEGAN FOX A. S. BYATT Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing... JOHN LOGAN RYAN GOSLING It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON When you hear the word 'disabled,' people immediately think about people who can't walk ... TERI GARR IDINA MENZEL My eyebrows - they have a life of their own. I don't arch them on purpose; I don't do, like,... SEAMUS DEVER If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows l... DEL SHANNON BILL CLEGG Like everyone, I was stunned by the devastation and desperately wanted to help. What really struck m... WILLIAM AUSTIN I'm a massive daydreamer. I'm constantly lost within my own fantasies and my own thoughts pe... EMILY BROWNING JUDY GOLD It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing compan... SOLOMON BURKE They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attra... GUY RITCHIE I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost ... JAMIE BELL I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear t... MEG WHITE Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been ... ED WESTWICK I must say that when I left 'Doctor Who,' I was filled with... not loathing, but I was incre... CAROLE ANN FORD When I am in that lane, and I hear, 'Caster Semenya from South Africa,' I always know I am d... CASTER SEMENYA RALPH WALDO EMERSON You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do m... AMAURY NOLASCO M. J. ROSE TAMRON HALL SAM SHEPARD I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rath... DOUGLAS WOOD MARIO TESTINO I trust my characters. They know their stories better than I do. RAYNE HALL DIANA ROSS VERONICA ROTH PAT CONROY If you look at the body of any writers' work, you can figure out the questions that animate them... ISOBELLE CARMODY Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from th... KATE BRAVERMAN I've heard rumors about myself that are true - and nobody likes that. But there's actually s... CHRISTIAN BORLE They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would ... LILLIAN HELLMAN JENNIFER LOPEZ I love playing really strung out characters, and characters that are really pushed to their limits a... DANIEL SHARMAN PAIGE VANZANT ERIKA CHRISTENSEN STEVE CARELL There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, s... NANCY KRESS But that's something that I like about scoring film: it makes me reach out of the parameters of ... JIM COLEMAN GARRY TRUDEAU CARRIE-ANNE MOSS Everybody has their own rules, and so do I. I have always lived on my own terms. As far as mistakes ... KAJOL I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about... DEBORAH EISENBERG CHRISTIAN BALE I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that... STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS ARI GRAYNOR I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are... GARRETT DILLAHUNT DALLAS ROBERTS I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN CHARLES BUKOWSKI There are many wonderful themes from 'Moana' that people discover, and I also hope they'... AULI'I CRAVALHO G. WILLOW WILSON I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters - when I say st... ANUSHKA SHARMA I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these ch... PATRICK MARBER I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's ju... GARRETT DILLAHUNT BRITNEY SPEARS MICHAEL J. FOX And it sends an important message to me, because I am sick to death to hear my opponent saying Repub... BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL It's not really that I've been an advocate for hearing aids for a long time, it's just t... LESLIE NIELSEN STEVIE NICKS R. A. SALVATORE I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I'v... ANN BRASHARES TATIANA MASLANY CHAIM POTOK AUSTIN MAHONE JULIA CAMERON I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and se... J. B. SMOOVE I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing t... DANNY PUDI BOB NEWHART BEN WHEATLEY What I always meant by that was that I do believe that a lot of directors, and writers, and sometime... BUCK HENRY JOSE SARAMAGO I love music, and I loved dance music immediately. So I bought some equipment and started making my ... ARMIN VAN BUUREN GARY JOHNSON I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into in... MELISSA ROSENBERG BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI PETER ACKROYD NELSON ALGREN Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always h... ALAN VEGA
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The tendency is to overthink shots while you're w... RICKIE FOWLER Playing on the PGA Tour and playing professional golf, I think it's what everyone has dreamed of... RICKIE FOWLER It's pretty cool to see yourself on a video game. RICKIE FOWLER I'm one of a few guys on the PGA Tour who doesn't work with an instructor. I'm not sayin... RICKIE FOWLER It's a lot harder to break bones in golf than motocross. But that made me fearless in a way. RICKIE FOWLER There's still nothing I love more than being in the air. I've always liked speed and things ... RICKIE FOWLER In my case, I was placing extreme pressure on my lower spine from rotating my hips too much. This is... RICKIE FOWLER One of the main rules with my mom was if I broke a club, she was going to take it and I wouldn't... RICKIE FOWLER My grandpa was the one; he started taking up golf when I was about two and introduced me to the game... RICKIE FOWLER I'd love to have a lasting impact as far as growing the game. It would be cool to be remembered ... RICKIE FOWLER I draw a younger crowd who can relate to me. Some of the girl fans will message me online, saying, &... RICKIE FOWLER On a dirt bike, when you're sizing up a jump, you can't have any second thoughts. You have t... RICKIE FOWLER Obviously, signing on with Puma right when I turned pro, it's been a great fit for me to show of... RICKIE FOWLER I come from great stock. I didn't come from money. My parents both worked really hard to keep fo... RICKIE FOWLER I get out in my boat and go fishing inshore and offshore. RICKIE FOWLER I just kind of hang out, watch movies and play golf. RICKIE FOWLER Time management is probably the biggest thing I've had to learn to deal with being on the PGA To... RICKIE FOWLER Mom always got me to school and the driving range while Dad was working. She also kept me quiet and ... RICKIE FOWLER The way I see it, thinking about the position of the club during the swing is about the worst way to... 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In my own work, I don't have favorite characters, but I have characters that I relate to the mos... 
I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what... 
I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and gra... 
All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors... 
All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they ar... 
I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think th... 
It's not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my character... 
When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at th... 
You start singing by singing what you hear. So everyone, when they first start singing, they natural... 
I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I on... 
I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I l... 
I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female charac... 
I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if t... 
If a writer I represent gets a bad or unfair review, I suffer. I'm upset and outraged and do eve... 
Women risked their lives for the right to vote. When I hear people say, 'Oh, I'm not gonna v... 
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When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in ... 
Looking back, I've always enjoyed hearing about the lives of other people, their experience thro... 
I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers w... 
Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art bu... 
I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because ... 
I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think ... 
I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about... 
When I first started on television, people, and even my own manager at the time, would tell me I had... 
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I take things on a day to day basis when it gets really hectic. But I do think long term and I'm... 
I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think... 
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the enterta... 
I tend to play strong characters and people just assume that I would want to play romantic comedies,... 
I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too muc... 
There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew... 
When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don'... 
When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't writ... 
I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I g... 
I guess it's because I do have a younger audience that, you know, parents worry about the role m... 
So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's ju... 
When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the wri... 
That's the whole point of writing to me - I put my characters under incredible duress, and from ... 
I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script... 
I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of pe... 
Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to pu... 
My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way... 
With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than t... 
The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothi... 
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I'm one of the people that, when I hear Republicans talk about repealing Obamacare, I just want ... 
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I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers&#... 
I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader. 
I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had ... 
I had a very loyal cult-like following, I feel. And I don't mean to complain about that. 
Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull. 
Reality TV has blown away the need for a roster of familiar faces in films. Plus, films became franc... 
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on yo... 
Statistics show that the nature of English crime is reverting to its oldest habits. In a country whe... 
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to uns... 
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget whe... 
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There's a melancholy sense of things lost in the shabbier British seaside towns; of comfortable ... 