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#1

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

tags: caricature, characters, skill, true-to-life, writing

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#2

“You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.”
― Joss Whedon

tags: characters, fiction-writing, human-nature, journey, life-lessons, truth

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#3

“I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.”
― John Green

tags: books, characters, humor

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#4

“You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.”
― John Rogers

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#5

“I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.”
― Berkeley Breathed

tags: characters, fiction, on-fiction

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#6

“Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: characters, plot

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#7

“The only characters I ever don't like are ones that leave no impression on me. And I don't write characters that leave no impression on me.”
― Lauren DeStefano

tags: characters, lauren-destefano, wither

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#8

“The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.”
― Milan Kundera

tags: characters, poetic, poetry, prose, writers

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#9

“If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.”
― John Irving, Last Night in Twisted River

tags: characters, life, old-age

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#10

“A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose.”
― Nusrat Sultana

tags: books, characters, confidence, hope, inspirational, life, original, strength

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#11

“Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: analogies, anger, angry-men, annoy, authors, bitter-people, characters, conflict, cruel-people, drama, enemies, examples, fake-christians, fiction-characters, fights, friends, irritation, jealous-women, life-events, made-an-example, memories, plots, stalkers, stories, villians, writers, writing

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#12

“Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions."

(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: characters, creative-process, state-of-mind, writing

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#13

“Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.”
― Teresa Mummert

tags: characters, reality, writing, writing-process

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#14

“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.”
― Kevin Hood, Becoming Jane

tags: characters, novels, truth, writing

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#15

“Most people carry their demons around with them, buried down deep inside. Writers wrestle their demons to the surface, fling them onto the page, then call them characters.”
― CK Webb

tags: characters, ck-webb, writing

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#16

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: happiness, pain, peace, scar, sweetness

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#17

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

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#18

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: identity, originality

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#19

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: chance, happiness, risk

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#20

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

tags: future, life, past

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#21

“Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: today

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#22

“When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: future

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#23

“Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: brandy-alexander

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#24

“Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.”
― chuck palahniuk

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#25

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

tags: fight-club, inspirational, tyler, tyler-durden

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#26

“Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: human-nature

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#27

“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression

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#28

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”
― Ansel Adams

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#29

“To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

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#30

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
― Sigmund Freud

tags: emotion, expression, freud, repression, self-expression

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