In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

What I do is, I'm like a disease that infects real people and I take them over. We can start off in a very…

— Bob Shacochis

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

— Anonymous

Circumstances don't create character. They reveal character.

— Zig Ziglar

“It comes back to the question, whom are you writing for? Who are the readers you want? Who are the people you want to…

— Amy Hempel

Lechery is secretive, but must finally reveal itself to at least one.

— Mason Cooley

There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful…

— Pamela Stephenson

When I returned to short stories, I'd started working on what is still central to much of what I try to do: putting myself…

— Karin Tidbeck

If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical…

— Frank Moore Cross

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. Knowing…

— Malcolm Forbes

Murder is a crime. Describing Murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.

— Gershon Legman

Writing is not describing, painting is not depicting. Verisimilitude is merely an illusion.

— Georges Braque

With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and…

— Janine Antoni

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.

— Dana Carvey

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how…

— Jess Walter

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil