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“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Character Stories Action Hate Turns Novel Alive Pages Understood Hundred Skins I Hate Twenties Agree Thirty Shed Snakes I Am Alive

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.”

Made Character Lasts Common Numbers Hundred Lists Common Sense Attributes Last Time New Yorkers Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Hitchhikers Guide

Book:Mostly Harmless

Source: Mostly Harmless

“A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.”

Character Hundred Constitution Credit Tales Reputation Strongest Scandal Fever Prudent Prudes

Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“I think that people are going to find more interest in the human condition, especially with them being weaned on so much reality television. They want character driven stuff along with real violence. Cage fighting is very popular with the kids right now. They see and know what one punch can do to someone's face. You can't give someone five hundred punches in a film anymore.”

“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.”

“In a 22-page comic, figuring an average of four to five panels a page and a couple of full-page shots, a writer has maybe a hundred panels at most to tell a story, so every panel he wastes conveying a.) something I already know, b.) something that's a cute gag but does nothing to reveal plot or character, or c.) something I don't need to know is a demonstration of lousy craft.”

Knows Needs Doe Book Character Stories Five Four Couple Waste Pages Hundred Shots Average Crafts Comic Cute Plot Comic Book Demonstration Gags Conveying

Author:Mark Waid

“I have followed the Church in giving our party program the character of unalterable finality, like the Creed. The Church has never allowed the Creed to be interfered with. It is fifteen hundred years since it was formulated, but every suggestion for its amendment, every logical criticism, or attack on it, has been rejected.”

Giving Years Has Beens Character Church Religious Party Hundred Program Criticism Logical Amendments Creeds Fifteen Rejected Suggestions Finality

Author:Adolf Hitler

“If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni.”

Ifs World Years Two Character Home Lasts Found Waiting Cases Comedy Wife Poet Hundred Critics Queens Opera Merry Queen Elizabeth True Home Windsor Falstaff Verdi

Author:W. H. Auden

“Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.”

People Ifs Character Would Be Walks Feet Republican Hundred Democrat Deeds Be Good Swim Shore Good Deeds Rope Drowning

Author:S. I. Hayakawa

“I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.”

Want Ends Matter Character Film Moving Next Roles Pages Hundred Fascinating

Author:Michael B. Jordan

“Saying goodbye to Nina is both bittersweet and beautiful. After six-plus years together, the entire cast and crew of The Vampire Diaries has reached a level of closeness that I don't think any of us ever expected. Nina is excited to spread her wings, get some rest, travel the world and also take it by storm, and we support her a thousand-fold. We will miss Nina and the four hundred characters she played, but we look forward to the insane and exciting challenge of continuing to tell stories of our Salvatore Brothers and our much-loved and gifted ensemble.”

“Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.”

“When you introduce a character and show him for the first time, don't show him fully lit. Don't show him one hundred percent to the audience. Show maybe fifty percent or sixty percent so the audience can fill in the dark spots.”

Firsts Character Shows Dark Audience Percent Hundred First Time Spots Fifty Introducing Sixty Lit

Author:Peter Stormare

“Writer's block to me is where you stop because you're afraid to go forward because you're not sure of what really should be happening next and you think, my gosh, if I choose this... you've got a hundred millions of avenues you could possibly go down but it's all an assess of characters.”

Ifs Thinking Should Character Next Millions Happenings Hundred Block Not Sure Avenues Writer's Block

Author:Homer Hickam

“I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement.”

Ifs Wells May Long Character Might Memories Cities Reader Circumstances Hundred Painful Intense Instance Excitement Remarkable Long Ago Baltimore

Book:Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full of improbable events, anecdotes, folklore and numbers.”

Years Art War Character Numbers Novel Events Hundred Baseball Works Of Art Ongoing Improbable Folklore Anecdotes

Book:The answer is baseball: a book of questions that illuminate the great game

Source: The answer is baseball: a book of questions that illuminate the great game

“Both Moscow and [Kiev], the modern and the ancient capitals, were reduced to ashes [by the Tartars]; a temporary ruin, less fatal than the deep, and perhaps indelible, mark, which a servitude of two hundred years has imprinted on the character of the Russians.”

Years Two Character Modern Hundred Mark Ancient Ruins Temporary Ashes Servitude Moscow Indelible Kiev

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by means of government coercion is a form of theft. Its supporters attempt to disguise its essential character by claiming that democratic procedures give it legitimacy, but this justification is specious. Theft is theft, whether it be carried out by one thief or by a hundred million thieves acting in concert. And it is impossible to found a good society on the institutionalization of theft.”

“The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.”

Inspirational Years Children Character Born Influence Hundred Building Character Proper Time

Book:More Lay Thoughts of a Dean

Source: More Lay Thoughts of a Dean

“One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot dilute things into a novel. I think the first hundred pages of a novel are very important. That's where you set things up: the world, the characters. Once you've set that up, it'll be much easier.”

Thinking World Firsts Important Character Stories Easy Mistake Novel Easier Pages Hundred Short Story

Author:Yiyun Li

“Keanu and I were in New York, I was prepping John Wick 2. And when Keanu [Reeves], [writer] Derek Kolstad, and myself sat down and wrote the character, it was completely, one hundred percent based on Laurence Fishburne. Like, in my head I saw this guy.”

Character Guy Saws New York Percent Hundred Down And Sat This Guy

Author:Chad Stahelski

“Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.”

World Years Two Important Real Character Courses Hundred Thirty Daydreaming Old World Fictional Character Important Life

Book:Austenland: A Novel

Source: Austenland: A Novel

“…I'm sorry, and a little dissatisfied as well. Miss Stacy told me long ago that by the time I was twenty my character would be formed, for good or evil. I don't feel that it's what it should be. It's full of flaws.' 'So's everybody's,' said Aunt Jamesina cheerfully. 'Mine's cracked in a hundred places. Your Miss Stacy likely meant that when you are twenty your character would have got its permanent bent in one direction or 'tother, and would go on developing in that line.”

Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

“I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength. [From a 1986 Fangoria interview]”

Has Beens Stills Done Character Strong Interest Interesting Balance Findings Hundred Female Weak Males Interviews Femininity Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female

Author:James Cameron

“Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?”

Source: The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe