Paul Newman (1925–2008) American actor and film director
Quoted in Craig Modderno, "Newman remains animated at 81," Reuters (2006-06-12)
“I’ve read Rudin before, but that was fifteen years ago in university. Rereading it now, lying all bandaged up, sipping my whiskey in bed in the afternoon, I felt new sympathy for the protagonist Rudin. I almost never identify with anybody in Dostoyevsky, but the characters in Turgenev’s old-fashioned novels are such victims of circumstance, I jump right in. I have a thing about losers. Flaws in oneself open you up to others flaws. Not that Dostoyevsky’s characters don’t generate pathos, but they’re flawed in a way that don’t come across as faults.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter Fifteen: Whiskey, Torture, Turgenoev
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Jessica Hagedorn (1949) Filipino-American playwright, writer, poet, storyteller, musician, multimedia performance artist
If you’re in tune with your story then the characters do come at you organically. There isn’t an order to how they might appear. <br class="br">Source: On how she invests part of herself in her characters in “JESSICA HAGEDORN” http://www.tayoliterarymag.com/jessica-hagedorn in TAYO Literary Magazine
Eddie Izzard (1962) British stand-up comedian, actor and writer
Dress to Kill (1998)
Source: Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill
Context: I had to chat up girls, and I'd only tagged them before. I didn't have the verbal power to be able to say, "Susan, I saw you in the classroom today. As the sun came from behind the clouds, a burst of brilliant light caught your hair, it was haloed in front of me. You turned, your eyes flashed fire into my soul, I immediately read the words of Dostoevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, 'I fancy you.' " But no! At 13, you're just going, " 'Ello, Sue. I saw you in the room... I've got legs, have you? Oh yeah... Do you like bread? I've got a French loaf. [mimes smacking her with the loaf and dashing off] Bye! (I love you!)"
“I'm a flawed character… I viewed this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times.”
Lance Armstrong (1971) professional cyclist from the USA
Lance Armstrong Admits to Doping, 'One Big Lie' http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323468604578248582288523660.html, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, January 18, 2013.
“Faith is not a virtue, but a character flaw.”
Jerry Coyne (1949) American biologist
" Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ faith https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/09/14/jesus-n-mo-n-faith-3/" September 14, 2016
"The Thing Bill Walton Still Can't Forgive Himself For" https://www.gq.com/story/bill-walton-back-from-the-dead-interview, interview with GQ (March 26, 2016).
Tracy Chevalier (1962) American writer
On how she formulates her characters in “An Interview with Tracy Chevalier” https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/an-interview-with-tracy-chevalier/ in Fiction Writers Review (2019 Sep 23)
