To connect with the characters, you need to connect with the world. If the world feels vaguely familiar, I believe the characters will feel relatable.
When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.
Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.
For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.
There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.
Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.
I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.
We're teaching our kids that attributes as vague and relatively meaningless as a toothy smile or a fine head of hair make a fine statement about a person.
I always loved Japanese movies. And they had an enormous impact in France - the Nouvelle Vague took so much from them. It taught us how the camera was placed in the centre of the action.
My main motivation is not to get bored. I'm just hoping I get a vaguely maverick reputation.
From the deepest silence between us arose uncertain, utterly vague and, as it were, whispered varieties on the theme ‘smile’.
God has given to His works His own character of emeth; they are watertight, faithful, reliable, not at all vague or phantasmal.
I vaguely remember my schooldays. They were what was going on in the background while I was trying to listen to the Beatles.
Her own vague red trail created a livid atmosphere. She was like an avalanche and they were her nostalgia.
Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
This life, so thrift and vague, nothing, but toil and worries, dread, and casts our souls into eternal journey of no return
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong'.
The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response to the phenomenon of downloading music... People want to get rid of the headphones and be part of a shared experience.
Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air he gives off that problems of management get in the way of ideas.
