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Cassandra Clare Quotes about Character

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If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for them. If they've never cried for a fictional character, then they've never loved one

If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for them. If they've never cried for a fictional character, then they've never loved one (and what a joy that is). If they've never cried at a book, a movie, a piece of music, then they've missed one of the great pleasures life has to offer. Just because fiction does not contain things that are real doesn't mean it doesn't contain truth, and we find it through the alchemy of our tears.

Cassandra Clare
Real, Book, Character

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

Cassandra Clare
Character, Men, Wish
Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

There is no cure for fictional character love, but the plus side is that it is an entirely benign disease with no bad side effects.

Cassandra Clare
Character, Disease, Sides

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

Cassandra Clare
Real, Writing, Character
Interview with Cheryl Brody, www.seventeen.com. March 5, 2008.

I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.

Cassandra Clare
Book, Character, Different

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

Cassandra Clare
Writing, Character, Thinking

Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.

Cassandra Clare
Book, Character, Want
Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

Cassandra Clare
Character, Men, Said
Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

Sometimes when you cannot decide what to do, you pretend to be a character in a book, because it is easier to decide what they would do"-Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare
Book, Character, Sometimes

I don't think I ever intended specifically to write for the young adult market. It's just that when the idea for City of Bones came to me, I knew the main characters were teenagers. In my mind they were just very clearly the ages they were, which turned out to mean it was a YA novel.

Cassandra Clare
Teenager, Writing, Character
"Author Interview: Cassandra Clare on City of Bones (Book One, The Mortal Instruments)". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. March 8, 2008.

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

Cassandra Clare
Writing, Character, People
TheFandom.net Interview, www.thefandom.net.

The great thing about writing for a younger audience is that they will give it to you straight with their responses. They'll tell you exactly what they liked and didn't like, and when they're enthusiastic, they're unashamedly enthusiastic. They'll talk to you about your characters as if they were real people, which is wonderful.

Cassandra Clare
Real, Writing, Character
Source: www.writewords.org.uk

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