--- title: "2 End result Quotes By Soseki Natsume" description: "2 End result quotes by Soseki Natsume. Plus more from Soseki Natsume and more End result sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/900/soseki-natsume-9685_character_in-fact-there-is-no-such-thing-as-charac_56410.jpg" --- > [“In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don’t know how to write about. Or, if they tried, the end result would never be a novel. Real people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/in-fact-there-is-no-such-thing-as-character-something-fixed-and-final/) [Soseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/900/soseki-natsume-9685_character_in-fact-there-is-no-such-thing-as-charac_56410.jpg) > [“Novelists congratulate themselves on their creation of this kind of “character” or that kind of “character,” and readers pretend to talk knowingly about “character,” but all it amounts to is that the writers are enjoying themselves writing lies and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/novelists-congratulate-themselves-on-their-creation-of-this-kind-of/) [Sōseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/656/soseki-natsume-9685_books_novelists-congratulate-themselves-on-the_2512956.png) ## More by Soseki Natsume > [“In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don’t know how to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/in-fact-there-is-no-such-thing-as-character-something-fixed-and-final/) [Soseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) > [“I would guess that he thought and thought for at least ten years before he came up with a stupendous idea, that glory of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/i-would-guess-that-he-thought-and-thought-for-at-least-ten-years/) [Soseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) > [I am a cat. As yet I have no name](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/i-am-a-cat-as-yet-i-have-no-name/) [Soseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) > [“Under the sun the couple presented smiles to the world. Under the moon, they were lost in thought: and so they had quietly passed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/under-the-sun-the-couple-presented-smiles-to-the-world-under-the-moon/) [Sōseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) > [“Miss Blanche, having given through her tears a complete account of this event, assured me that, to maintain our own parental love and enjoy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/miss-blanche-having-given-through-her-tears-a-complete-account-of/) [Sōseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) > [“But since heaven has not seen fit to dower the human animal with an ability to understand cat language, I regret to say that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/but-since-heaven-has-not-seen-fit-to-dower-the-human-animal-with-an/) [Sōseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) > [“A stomach can resite itself in a pulmonary location; Coxinga can be blood-kin to the Seiwa Minamotos; and that Mr. Tami, much maligned, may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/a-stomach-can-resite-itself-in-a-pulmonary-location-coxinga-can-be/) [Sōseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) > [“So that wee bit of a thing is what you call a haiku-play? Quite awful! Ueda Bin is constantly pointing out in his essays…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/so-that-wee-bit-of-a-thing-is-what-you-call-a-haiku-play-quite-awful/) [Sōseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) > [“How deep, how recondite this seeming petty heart, In whose recesses right and wrong lie dimmed by distance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/how-deep-how-recondite-this-seeming-petty-heart-in-whose-recesses/) [Sōseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) > [“The autumn leaves, arranged in two or three scarlet terraces among the pine-trees, have fallen like ancient dreams.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/the-autumn-leaves-arranged-in-two-or-three-scarlet-terraces-among-the/) [Sōseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) > [“When twilight fell, first upon knickers and then upon surcoats, there came the dawn of Japanese skirted-trousers. These were designed by monsters peeved by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/when-twilight-fell-first-upon-knickers-and-then-upon-surcoats-there/) [Sōseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) > [“With a palate as unrefined as mine I can’t taste any difference between this French food and what we had at that sleazy bar…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/with-a-palate-as-unrefined-as-mine-i-can-t-taste-any-difference/) [Sōseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) > [“Had I had the misfortune to dwell in some other household, I might have lived nine lives and never known that such remarkable scholars,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/had-i-had-the-misfortune-to-dwell-in-some-other-household-i-might/) [Sōseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) > [“On my arrival at Tokyo, I rushed into her house swinging my valise, before going to a hotel, with "Hello, Kiyo, I'm back!" "How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/on-my-arrival-at-tokyo-i-rushed-into-her-house-swinging-my-valise/) [Sōseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) > [“Approach everything rationally, and you become harsh. Pole along in the stream of emotions, and you will be swept away by the current. Give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/soseki-natsume/approach-everything-rationally-and-you-become-harsh-pole-along-in-the/) [Sōseki Natsume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/soseki-natsume/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/end-result/soseki-natsume/#itemlist", "name": "2 End result Quotes By Soseki Natsume", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don’t know how to write about. 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