Fascinating Characters Quotes

I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.

A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget.

I have interviewed Hugo Chavez, Tim McVeigh, and hundreds of fascinating characters in South America, where I have lived for the past 15 years.

Your job is to give people a reason to keep reading.

I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.

I just always gravitate toward the kind of characters or people that maybe you don't want to talk to for a long time at a party, but you do like to watch what they're doing.

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

I either play cops or criminals - I'm either on the right side of the law or the wrong side. I gravitate toward edgier material because it suits my nature. I find it fascinating to play. I'm just that kind of person.

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.

It's your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I'm not interested in the characters, I can't go on. I have to be fascinated by them.

It was very hard not to get utterly and wholeheartedly drawn into the stories on 'The Gift.'

With the rise of cable, network is clearly floundering because the characters on cable are far more fascinating than they are on network. Network television is trying to figure it out. Network television really relies on story rather than character, and cable relies on character.

The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.

Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

If it's not gripping you, you are reading the wrong book.

I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

There are so many quirky characters, it's easy to fall in love with any number of the characters on 'The Carrie Diaries'.