Arise Quote by Adam Smith

“Character is more like a bundle of habits and tendencies and interests, loosely bound together and dependent, at certain times, on circumstance and context.…

— Malcolm Gladwell

An absolutely different and distinctive character.

— George Edmund Street

The characters are, by their nature, archetypes that can serve different metaphors.

— Kurt Busiek

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

— Adam Smith

Many writers write across difference of one kind or another. Sometimes the difference is large and recognizable: gender, or race, or religion, or sexuality.…

— Hanya Yanagihara

...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak…

— Jean Genet

Some of my characters are drawn from people I know whereas others are an amalgamation of people or one specific person. Sometimes a character…

— Zoya Akhtar

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

— Richard Ford

The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference.

— John Irving

How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.

— Salma Hayek

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

— Isabel Allende

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

— Vladimir Nabokov