Raymond E. Feist Quotes

I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'

I want to look at this character from all points of view. I know I don't want to make them all good or all bad or all anything... the story itself often helps create the character.

Each character, be it the antagonist or the protagonist, brings with himself his own personality... and I have tried to stay true to each one of them; each is enjoyable in their own way!

I want to give my characters nuance.

It's always fun to layer a character, to make the character a little bit more dynamic than it is on paper.

To be honest with you, most of the time the ingenue roles are a little bit dull and boring, in my opinion.

Finding the voice of a character, no matter who it is - from Black Widow to Han Solo - is the first and most important hurdle for me to cross in any work of fiction.

In comic books, every character exists in this comic book world, and the wrestlers were the same thing. They were responsible for creating that world and putting it out there - having the confidence to go forward and do that and behave in a certain way.

For me that's the magic of the printed page - we don't have to pay attention to the passage of time and focus in on the realities of these characters at a specific age or at a specific time in their lives, and we can play with that to our hearts' content.

As I write, I try to be the character.

I think actors are very obsessed about looking different and behaving differently, but all people need is just a different film. They don't want a different you; they want a different story.

To be able to be a good actress and portray other people's stories, you have to be true to yourself.

You don't want to make performances; you want to make people. When a project knows, 'Okay, my bad guys need to be a little sympathetic, and my good guys need to have a bit of a mean streak,' you're off to a good start.

I essay a negative or a positive character depending on whether it's a principle role and how much it drives the movie.

Make your characters believable, and your reader will believe what they believe.

I believe that a great character can be made in one scene, or a few moments.

A novel is no mere assemblage of gears; it is a wild and living being. And how are you to discern the intentions of a creature - to discover its true nature - other than by close and respectful observation?

Dhanam' is one of the interesting scripts that I came across. It centers around me.

I think my best quality as a writer is the ability to craft complicated, nuanced, interesting characters.

You don't want to have a character say what's bothering him; you want to define characters by action.

And that's the case with all of James McMurtry's songs. He never presents these characters for us to judge, but only to sympathize with. He has a capacity for compassion with every sketch that he makes with a person that he is not.

When I write, I try to become different characters.

It's always incredible though when you feel like the writer knows the character intimately and can see their life sprawling away outside of the show.

I think my sensibilities about storytelling and character just automatically come into play when I'm trying to work on any kind of narrative. For me, it doesn't really matter what the source of the narrative is. I will be looking for ways to make it into an intriguing story with empathetic characters.

I am on the lookout for smart scripts and stories where my role has weightage.