Quotes by Character I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...) Alan Lee legends bears character That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control. Alan Lightman balance giving character "The Diagnosis" had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes. I would do something and let it sit for three months... just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn't quite right. But I think everybody goes through this. Alan Lightman character book thinking In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully. You can't let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own. Alan Lightman writing character ideas If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you. Alan Lightman plot character book Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing. Alan Lightman writing character thinking I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing. Alan Moore dream adventure character It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise. Alan Moore games character book Judged by the stark, sure-footed portrait in Hard Time, Brian Azzarello and Richard Corben clearly have John Constantine down, cold and to the life. Azzarellos grasp of pacing, character and situation resonates through every scene with a black crystal clarity thats short of masterful, while Corben contributes what is, perhaps, one of the most darkly expressive pieces in a long, already-legendary career. Alan Moore hard-times careers character If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us. Alan Moore real character culture My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point. Alan Moore character book way Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're working on chapter three of your masterwork, chapter one is already in print. You can't go back and suddenly decide to make this character a woman, or have this one fall out of a window. Alan Moore three character fall I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to approach any kind of storytelling. Alan Moore race age character I believe that the sphere of service, your career, the plan which God has mapped out for you and prepared for you, is the greatest agency in His hands to conform You to His character and to His will. Alan Redpath agency character believe No man can use his Bible with power unless he has the character of Jesus in his heart. Alan Redpath heart character jesus I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney. Alan Rickman journey writing character Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications. Alan Rickman judging play character Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together. Alan Rickman together play character So you can't judge the character you're playing ever. Alan Rickman judging character If you judge the character, you cant play it. Alan Rickman judging play character «89101112131415161718»