No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Related quotes
A Mirror Image
How many times when reading a book,
do we identify with the characters within?
Their traits they have we share,
their loves and heartaches
their lives go through somehow mirror our own.
It’s as if the author was writing about us.
As though he has put us under a microscope
and then writing down everything, he saw.
However, we know this isn’t so
because he or she has written
segments of their own life
and by accident they happen to mirror ours.
Every writer will tell you
that they have their characters under control.
Having written numerous novels,
I know the characters take on a life of their own
and do what they want to do.
We become their instrument as they guide us on our way.
We end up writing what they want us to say.
To every writer his characters are real,
they live, breathe and feel.
The more you write about them,
the more alive they become.
So the next time you pick up a book
and the characters seem real,
they probably are to the author
who looks after them.
24 September 2008
poem by David Harris
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
I put heavy emphasis on the characters.
quote by Keenen Ivory Wayans
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.
quote by Jane Haddam
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The Play's The Thing
Every day
the same play.
The moment I rise,
the first act begins,
the same plot
all over again.
Only the characters,
only the scenery,
vary. Act after act,
no intermission,
no denouement,
it never ends.
Every night,
in the front row,
the same lady
in a plumed hat
stands and shouts,
"Author, Author! "
I smile, I bow,
what else can I do?
Finally I pull the curtain
and turn in.
poem by Donal Mahoney
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
Pathetic Memory
Useless, annoying pathetic memory
it wont remember
what she wants it or needs it to
Always forgetting whats important
wont remember whats asked
Many things are thought
very few ever last
Gone, faded, some never return
why cant it just work right? !
Anger, frustration
pain is created
All because of her pathetic memory
~IP23
poem by Iron Panda 23
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!
quote by Bernadette Peters
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Yes Yes
when God created love he didn't help most
when God created dogs He didn't help dogs
when God created plants that was average
when God created hate we had a standard utility
when God created me He created me
when God created the monkey He was asleep
when He created the giraffe He was drunk
when He created narcotics He was high
and when He created suicide He was low
when He created you lying in bed
He knew what He was doing
He was drunk and He was high
and He created the mountians and the sea and fire at the same time
He made some mistakes
but when He created you lying in bed
He came all over His Blessed Universe.
Submitted by .eve.
poem by Charles Bukowski
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.
quote by Bruce Beresford
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.
quote by John M. Ford
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.
quote by Sarah Zettel
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
quote by Luigi Pirandello
Submitted by Veronica Serbanoiu
Vote! | Copy!
I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like.
quote by Ruth Buzzi
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
quote by Julien Green
Submitted by Simona Enache
Vote! | Copy!
A good reader is the author.
A literary work is a mirror,
Wherein you see the author in yourself.
You love the characters
Who he loved to have made.
22.08.2002
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
Vote! | Copy!
I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.
quote by Curtis Sittenfeld
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
quote by Vladimir Nabokov
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can ""take over"" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.
quote by Margaret Mahy
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.
quote by Bebe Neuwirth
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.
quote by Tara Strong
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!
It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.
quote by Crystal Eastman
Submitted by Lucian Velea
Vote! | Copy!