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I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.


Emily Giffin

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RACHEL WEISZ No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, d...
EMILY GIFFIN You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to...
GREG BERLANTI People are afraid to show women with demons. But I think it's important for women to see flawed ...
RILEY KEOUGH The characters that I play are real. They are real so they have as much right to be portrayed as any...
ROBERT DE NIRO I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's ran...
ERIC JEROME DICKEY I try to educate people about materialism through my work. I try to show them real visual luxury.
JEFF KOONS Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real sa...
KAREN TRAVISS I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, ...
J. J. ABRAMS I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.
ADEPERO ODUYE It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You...
AIDAN GILLEN The Horizon project remains on track. To date we have achieved our critical milestones and advanced ...
REAL DOUCET i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
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T. REAL The rule that surpasses all rules is that you must be connected, willing to see what's in front of y...
TERRENCE REAL I won't forget when I couldn't go to bed with the lights off
When I heard that voice call me in...
REAL FRIENDS You'll spend every Saturday night on the bathroom floor with no recollection of the night before REAL FRIENDS My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist...
S. E. HINTON I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.
JOSH RADNOR My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
JOHN SEARLES hate perfect people because they are not real. I love real people because they TRY to be perfect.
MITTA XININDLU With my physicality and my face, I don't think I could pull off a completely righteous guy. Ther...
EMRAAN HASHMI I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but re...
C. J. BOX Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal t...
CHUCK CLOSE All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you c...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.
KRISTIN HERSH Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don&#...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's ...
JAMES BADGE DALE I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I...
NATHANIEL RICH My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do...
GWYNETH PALTROW Real beauty doesn't need to starve itself. Real strength doesn't need to be violent. Real intelligen...
STACEY CHARTER The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.
DYLAN MORAN Hearing it in her words, it makes it all the more real. It's something that's hard to get across in ...
IRA GLASS Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I writ...
P. N. ELROD There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that though...
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DEBBIE MACOMBER Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my character...
BRENT WEEKS Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.
SHANNON L. ALDER Talk about a dream, try to make it real.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they...
D. J. MACHALE I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but...
MARGUERITE YOUNG When you decide to stop fitting in with a world you don't fit in, you start seeing who your real fri...
CAROLINE IDIAGHE If you keep the situations real, the characters' behavior will be real and honest, too. If they&...
NICOLE HOLOFCENER When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wante...
NICOLE KRAUSS I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity...
CALLIE KHOURI I love flawed female characters, duking it out.
LENA DUNHAM Berlin inspired Bowie and stirred him to write about real, important matters.
RORY MACLEAN We talk about characters in literature as though they were built on the model of the real person, bu...
ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I lik...
CASSANDRA CLARE People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human be...
KATE BECKINSALE I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
L. J. SMITH There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet...
JAMES FENTON There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real li...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN There are some people who don't want to think about teenagers having sex at all, in real life or in ...
KATHLEEN HORNING In real life, people fumble their words. They repeat themselves and stare blankly off into space and...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are t...
WHITFIELD DIFFIE Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and hav...
GAIL Z. MARTIN I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castl...
RICHARD MATHESON I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
TARON EGERTON I did a great deal of research to write 'The Irish Duke.' Since all the people in this Lords...
VIRGINIA HENLEY I loved the guy. He was one of the real characters of our time. When I think about him, I smile.
BOB WALSH People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am e...
KAPIL SHARMA I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether th...
MARC JACOBS It takes a real designer to design for real women.
LESLIE JONES I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of...
LEE SMITH Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly...
KELLY SUE DECONNICK Are the accomplishments that people boast about real? Probably. But I’d rather hang out with real ...
CHARLES F. GLASSMAN In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human beha...
ROBERT DE NIRO I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I ...
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SCOTT DERRICKSON I feel like I could disappear because I'm not real to other people.
MIRANDA EMMERSON Only few talk about being "real" and then the percentage reduces drastically because standing "true"...
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI Real programmers don't write in PL/I. PL/I is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in C...
TOM VAN VLECK In my horror movies, I was always trying to deal with real characters and real character drama playe...
SCOTT DERRICKSON To the immature, other people are not real.
HARRY OVERSTREET I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
NORA EPHRON I'm uninterested in superheroes. I am only interested in real stories, real people, real connect...
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SOPHIE KINSELLA It's not about how many women are running. It's about how many women are running where they have rea...
ELLEN MALCOLM I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.
BEYONCE KNOWLES These are real people with real emotions and real passions. We do our real history a disservice when...
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DOUG SCOFIELD I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters t...
AUBREY PLAZA I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emoti...
GIN WIGMORE My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a ye...
CYNTHIA VOIGT I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, an...
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BERRY GORDY I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love...
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EMILY GIFFIN I don't really know why I went to law school.
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EMILY GIFFIN I was one of the early converts.
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EMILY MORTIMER I don't get embarrassed easily, and I do silly things all the time!
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EMILY DICKINSON Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh...
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EMILY DICKINSON I'm nobody, who are you?
EMILY DICKINSON A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
EMILY DICKINSON Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
EMILY DICKINSON I dwell in possibility.
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EMILY WATSON Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dain...
EMILY DICKINSON May she wake in torment!’ [...] ‘Why, she’s a liar to
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EMILY BRONTë Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and ...
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EMILY BRONTë You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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EMILY BRONTë It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
EMILY BRONTë She burned too bright for this world.
EMILY BRONTë Terror made me cruel . . .
EMILY BRONTë It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sic...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and yo...
EMILY CARROLL How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
EMILY DICKINSON My first lip balms were Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, which, correct me if I'm wrong, sometimes had l...
EMILY WEISS The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking th...
EMILY DESCHANEL Your bikini should compliment your dress, and they should work together to frame your body. It's...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson.
EMILY DICKENSON Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.
EMILY DICKINSON Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call...
EMILY DICKINSON Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emerg...
EMILY DICKINSON Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
EMILY KIMBROUGH Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the ...
EMILY BRONTë He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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EMILY BRONTë One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
EMILY DICKINSON Forever is composed of nows.
EMILY DICKINSON A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other...
EMILY BRONTë I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tel...
EMILY DICKINSON Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
EMILY DICKINSON You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray...
EMILY BRONTë Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the ...
EMILY DICKINSON In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battle...
EMILY THORNE This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me
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EMILY MAGUIRE I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.
EMILY BRONTë Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have p...
EMILY BRONTë Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot...
EMILY BRONTë If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and ...
EMILY BRONTë The Brain is wider than the sky-.
EMILY DICKINSON Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem.
EMILY DICKINSON Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON A wounded deer leaps the highest.
EMILY DICKINSON The abdication of belief makes the behavior small -- better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
EMILY DICKINSON Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, ...
EMILY BRONTE Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
EMILY PRAGER Beauty is not caused. It is.
EMILY DICKINSON Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
EMILY DICKINSON Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about th...
EMILY POST To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
EMILY POST Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me ...
EMILY BRONTE If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry....
EMILY DICKINSON Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...
EMILY DICKINSON It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up...
EMILY CARR Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
EMILY DICKINSON Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.
EMILY DICKINSON Dying is a wild night and a new road.
EMILY DICKINSON Let us go in; the fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON Because I could not stop for Death --
He kindly stopped for me --
The carriage held but just...
EMILY DICKINSON I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...
EMILY BRONTE Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -- and sings the tunes without the words --...
EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the word...
EMILY DICKINSON Where thou art, that is home.
EMILY DICKINSON They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
EMILY DICKINSON His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have n...
EMILY DICKINSON To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe...
EMILY DICKINSON How the old mountains drip with sunset,
And the brake of dun!
How the hemlocks are tipped in t...
EMILY DICKINSON I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true -- men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Thro...
EMILY DICKINSON Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone y...
EMILY CARR I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ...
EMILY BRONTE Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee,
Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary gra...
EMILY BRONT This is the Hour of Lead --
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow -...
EMILY DICKINSON Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTE To live is so starling it leaves little time for anything else.
EMILY DICKINSON After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
EMILY DICKINSON The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
EMILY BRONTE Much Madness is divinest Sense -- to a discerning Eye -- much Sense -- the starkest Madness --
EMILY DICKINSON His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon...
EMILY DICKINSON Then sing, young hearts that are full of cheer, with never a thought of sorrow; the old goes out, bu...
EMILY MILLER Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!,
Underneath their fine incisions, stirs ...
EMILY DICKINSON Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain ...
EMILY DICKINSON A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into somethi...
EMILY BRONTE Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's e...
EMILY CARR Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's...
EMILY DICKINSON Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved -- the site of it by architect could not a...
EMILY DICKINSON A Letter always seemed to me like Immortality, for is it not the Mind alone, without corporeal frien...
EMILY DICKINSON The fog is rising.
EMILY DICKINSON Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
EMILY DICKINSON 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventu...
EMILY DICKINSON I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixi...
EMILY DICKINSON Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes -- in other words, essential!
EMILY POST I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.
EMILY DICKINSON Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency
EMILY DICKINSON To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a home might be added the modern sup...
EMILY POST There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetr...
EMILY DICKINSON He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor t...
EMILY DICKINSON If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease on Life the Achin...
EMILY DICKINSON His labor is a chant, His idleness a tune; Oh, for a bee's experience Of clovers and of ...
EMILY DICKINSON Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From ...
EMILY DICKINSON God preaches, a noted clergyman, And the sermon is never long; So instead of getting to heaven...
EMILY DICKINSON And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me A heaven not so large as yours ...
EMILY DICKINSON Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...
EMILY DICKINSON "Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the word...
EMILY DICKINSON There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of C...
EMILY DICKINSON If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.
EMILY DICKINSON The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- ...
EMILY DICKINSON The heart asks pleasure first, And then, excuse from pain; And then, those little anodynes ...
EMILY DICKINSON Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode, until we drive...
EMILY DICKINSON Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'Ti...
EMILY DICKINSON The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee; A clover, any time, to him Is aristocrac...
EMILY DICKINSON Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag to-day Can tell the definition So clear...
EMILY DICKINSON Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
EMILY BRONTE Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.
EMILY DICKINSON Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
EMILY DICKINSON Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
EMILY DICKINSON Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have ...
EMILY POST For Love is Immortality.
EMILY DICKINSON I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gav...
EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and nev...
EMILY DICKINSON A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then th...
EMILY DICKINSON Fame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.
EMILY DICKINSON One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors su...
EMILY DICKINSON I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
EMILY DICKINSON Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat.
EMILY DICKINSON Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the...
EMILY DICKINSON Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you expr...
EMILY BLUNT I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people f...
EMILY BROWNING I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than ...
EMILY BROWNING The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because i...
EMILY BLUNT