“If you're not who you want to be, at least act like who you want it be. - Bud” — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Good fiction is trawling back into the past and digging up the real characters who've influenced your entire being.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“Standing on the deck of a San Francisco ferryboat, in a gray suit so precisely the same colour as the fog that… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Peter was a gentle, red-haired bear of a man. Standing at six-four in his socks, he moved everywhere with a slight and… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“Once Addie let someone in, she was impossible to forget. There was something about her that crawled inside a person and built… — Kasie West Copy Share Image
“...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
“They were handy to have around, Nate's little gang. They were that wonderful combination of talented and noble. The former was useful,… — Keith R.A. DeCandido Copy Share Image
“Nature forgot to shade him off, I think... A little too boisterous--like the sea. A little too vehement--like a bull who has… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There was no form of suffering with which… — Gene Stratton Porter Copy Share Image
“I need you to get inside Wayne's head. I need someone who thinks a bit left field and in your own unpleasant… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“He was a compact, clearcut man, with precise features, a lot of very soft black hair, and thoughtful dark brown eyes. He… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“People don't tend to employ me. I'm the wrong personality type. Or rather, people do tend to employ me for a short… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“Show Pleasant Riderhood a Wedding in the street, and she only saw two people taking out a regular license to quarrel and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Oh! but he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“I liked it when things went together like that. Not just timing things like the chop/ flick/ knock-stopping, but space things, too.… — Adam Levin Copy Share Image
“The character of Jesus can only be ultimately known experientially through the indwelling of His Spirit in union with us." ~"The character… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“Ian stepped out to where he knew I could clearly see and identify his tall, dark, and dangerous self.” — Lisa Shearin Copy Share Image
“the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next.” — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted.” — Laura Amy Schlitz Copy Share Image
“Character is what we do when no one else is watching" ~R. Alan Woods [2012]” — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
“Her face was not young, but it was simple; it was not fresh, but it was mild. She had large eyes which… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed.” — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“He was drinking Harriet's favourite, cold tea... not iced tea, but hot tea that had cooled. They liked him so much. They… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Jet-black hair curled slightly against his neck and around his ears, and his eyes . . . oh, those eyes . .… — Lee Roland Copy Share Image
“The uncle and cousin seem nice, but the aunt is a bit of a shock. Whith her hair dyed bright red, she… — Brian Malloy Copy Share Image
“She was delicately morbid in all her gestures, sensitive, arrogant, vulnerable to flattery. She veered between extravagant outbursts of opinion and sudden,… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“Habits can be changed. Character cannot. You can train yourself to wake up early, eat healthy, or quit smoking — but an… — Alex Haditaghi Copy Share Image
“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“Standing at the original Victorian counter was a man in a long black leather coat. His hair had been grown to counteract… — Julia Stuart Copy Share Image
“Pericles, he reflected, was a sad case. He'd been a postman all his life, a solid, reliable worker, until one Christmas when… — Alison Fell Copy Share Image
“The door flew open, revealing a wrinkled, forward-thrusting face wreathed with a nimbus of wispy white hair, a face resembling nothing so… — Lyndsay Faye Copy Share Image
“He thought that she looked like Winter; meaning both the girl he had once known and the season. He had always believed… — Ben Spencer Copy Share Image
“Miss Ingram was a mark beneath jealousy: she was too inferior to excite feeling. Pardon the seeming paradox; I mean what I… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image