"Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character."

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Source : David Corbett (2013). “The Art of Character: Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV”, p.41, Penguin

David Corbett

#Character Quotes #Events Quotes #Stories Quotes

“That's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.”
“Nixon has the audacity to tell me to do nothing in the interest of my country until he dictactes where that interest lies. At the same time he threatens me that failure to follow his so-called advice will be to jeopardize the special relations between our two countries. I say to hell with such special relations.”

Source : "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 278, 1991.
“I'm still strong and in the best shape to continue living my life.”
“These gun laws are very much the creation of the Prime Minister.”
“The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.”

Source : Michael Connelly (2012). “The Black Echo”, p.60, Hachette UK
“Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If they (Muslim women) wish to cover their faces and isolate themselves from the rest of the community and so thoroughly reject our culture then I cannot imagine why they want to be here at all. Perhaps they should just push off back to their own countries.”

Source : Private Eye Magazine, #1170, October 27 - November 09, 2006.
“I would argue that one of the major problems with our blind trust in algorithms is that we can propagate discriminatory patterns without acknowledging any kind of intent.”

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