There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity, and to every idea we have of moral justice, as any thing done by Robespierre, by Carrier, by Joseph le Bon, in France, by the English gov...
Back inside, I’m shown an antique cabinet in which members of the community, famous for their homegrown produce, dried herbs. The Oneida Community was an upstate tourist attraction right from the start, second, Valesky says, to Niagara Falls. I’m...
I do not possess the ability to draw or paint. I can’t sing or dance. I can’t knit or sew. But I am an artist. I have the ability to put onto paper, words that tell an intriguing story. I am a writer. A writer is someone who, with just words, can...
The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.
In his opinion, working was vastly overrated. Particularly as a way to build character, for everyone who engaged in it was far too snappish and fussy, and seemed to have no manners at all.
Alexia wondered what it said about her character that Ivy had genuinely believed she would intentionally go climbing about the side of a floating dirigible.
I am a terrible judge of character' "I don't think so. You just need to take note of FACTS from the outset, not feelings.
Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character!" EL
He smiled and bent forward, a hand on each knee, his truculence gleaming through his smile like a stone under water.
If I were a character in one of my books, I'd be the optimistic one, believing the best and urging others to do the same.
Fate and character are different names for the same idea.
It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom - is not human. He's insane.
Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.
When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life
The true magic of novels dwells within us individually. Each reader will interpret every single character, scene, and metaphor in a slightly different way
Empathy was written from many male and female points of view because each character reacts differently to the emotional fallout from one binding circumstance; Annie Wright's stroke.
It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.
If you read every poem in every anthology of Greek poetry, you wouldn't read one poem in which a character of the woman who's loved is described or matters.
Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.
Besides it's not as though the prisoner can truly die, any more than a character in a novel can. You can always flip back to the first page, can't you?
...I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin...
