Literary Characters Quotes

• We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors of literature happily have joined in proclaiming its death. A substantial number of Americans who believe they worship God actually worship three major literary characters: the Yahweh of the J Writer (earliest author of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers), the Jesus of the Gospel of Mark, and Allah of the Koran.

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  Harold Bloom

  Jesus   Believe   Character  

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• Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

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  Stephen Mangan

  Reading   Book   Character  

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• So the fact that there's someone who's planning what happens to the characters, writing it down, means that the characters always have a fate. And when we think about fate, we tend think of it as the thing we would have if we were literary characters, that is, if there were somebody out there, writing us.

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  Daniel Kehlmann

  Writing   Character   Mean  

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A writer often wants to change a reader’s perception about the world, which is a political act. But we have to work through character, so helping the reader to feel close to fictional characters is the gate through which we have to usher the reader.

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  Caryl Phillips

  Reading   Writing   Character  

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• Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

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  Isabel Allende

  Character   Grandmother   Care  

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

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• A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.

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  William Carlos Williams

  Character   Machines   Movement  

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