Quotes of: Interesting-character Keyword

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Death in the Afternoon

To write is to feel the dance of your soul swirling in a dream that drips imagination onto paper.

The Dance of Character and Plot

...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ...

A Familiar Rain

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.

The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God

Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.

Before I Wake

We have the ability to survive anything.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

Serving and attempting to inspire others is a responsibility, not a choice.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

Who you are should not be defined by your achievements.

Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

We applaud patience, but prefer it to be a virtue that others possess.

After You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

people don't change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character

The Lie

She's the main character in her story, just like I'm the main character in mine.

Love Walked In

Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type.

Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

George Saunders

On-screen relationships are the best because you don't have to worry about saying the wrong things. And if the guy's got a girlfriend, or I'm not attracted to him, it's even better. It's just my character kissing his character.

Alicia Witt

On 'Think Like a Man,' they got the best out of me because they allowed me to bring my own cadences and opinions to the character that I was playing. I think we got the best of that particular character.

Kevin Hart

He was a character. A character who should still be here. Damn it all to hell. He should still be here.

Chasing Brooklyn

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

Paul Ricoeur

Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.

Questlove

In order to make characters real - no matter what the character is doing - you have to see yourself as capable of having done that.

Regina Doman