Peter Orner Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Rarely is the pain of losing someone expressed with such directness, energy, and, yes, humor. The grief in Evan Kuhlman'sWolf Boyis palpable, and so is the flawed, honest humanity of his characters. Here is real loss and somehow, real catharsis.

  Peter Orner

  Pain, Real, Grief

• My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

  Peter Orner

  Regret, Character, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• I used to be surprised and a little annoyed when characters would reappear in my mind, itching to be in another story. Now I realize it's part of the deal, that you create these people out of thin air but then, if you do it right, they actually live.

  Peter Orner

  Character, Air, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• Lot of stories in deceit, how characters deceive other people, but most of all, I think, how they deceive themselves. We're not as tricky as we think we are.

  Peter Orner

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• I usually have a location and then I put the character there. I love place names. I think I'm tricking myself by being so specific - it suddenly becomes real to me. Just because I say it's Chicago, Illinois doesn't mean it's true, but place names sort of make me grounded and then I can put some people there.

  Peter Orner

  Real, Character, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• To me, and I'm sure for other writers, too, characters come back and they relive again, but what about those characters who only live for a page or two? Or for five pages or 10 pages. I like to think they're still out there - still living - but for me they kind of die, too. It's kind of sad. I don't think about them anymore unless I give them life again.

  Peter Orner

  Character, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My first book came out again - the re-issue from 2001. I was rereading it to make sure that I didn't miss any mistakes, and I didn't know who had written some of these stories. I really didn't. I am a different person now. It's weird. I think if stories are good, they have to have a life of their own that's independent of the writer. I like to think of my characters out there in other peoples' heads. That's a nice thing to think about.

  Peter Orner

  Mistake, Nice, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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