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Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.

Quote by Michael Chabon about meetings

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Quote by Oscar Wilde about people, enemies, good, good luck, man

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers, books, writing, common sense, sense, god

Magical realism is based on magical magic, that is, the happening of things that cannot be explained by the characters and are not explained by the author.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about magic, things

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Quote by Richard Bach about real estate, being, contentment, people

Tom Hulce and I have great respect for each other. But during the film, we were living a little bit like those two characters.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about film, respect

You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.

Quote by Victoria Abril about age, olderness, real estate, contentment

I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about morality, worry, common sense, sense, life

I think actors sometimes don't give their characters a sense of place.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about actors, common sense, sense

I never act my characters - I am them.

Quote by Drew Barrymore

People get different impressions of a person from the characters they play, you know.

Quote by Armand Assante about film, people, contentment

I've always played very human sort of characters.

Quote by Michael Caine about human imperfections

How was I to do that? If I wrote about them in the same language that I was using to write about Joe and Sammy, it would give the comics characters the same level of familiarity.

Quote by Michael Chabon about language

I started to feel that I had a large problem: my comic book characters didn't exist, and none of my readers would have seen them. The Escapist existed only within the covers of this book.

Quote by Michael Chabon

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

Quote by Michael Chabon

I was a big comics reader when I was a kid, from about six to fifteen. I collected them, I read them, I even created my own characters in comics.

Quote by Michael Chabon

I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about numbers, money, people

I don't think my characters are all awful and horrible. There are reasons for their behaviour. I have to find what makes them human

Quote by Glenn Close about human imperfections

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

Quote by Jackie Collins about fall, love, bad luck, bad

I think you are all going to have fun with the characters-especially my Russian hookers, who I had so much fun writing!

Quote by Jackie Collins about writing, contentment