Audience Quote by Aden Young

Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate…

— Karen Traviss

If you don't have a good character you have nothing. Character portrays the moral values of a person.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what you bring.…

— Chris Abani

You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as honest as…

— Donnie Wahlberg

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

— Taylor Sheridan

“I write characters that are ultimately flawed. Individual morality motivates character action. They all have a different view of right and wrong. Regardless of…

— Peter P. Sellers

Character is ethics in action.

— Michael Josephson

Character is ethical and moral strength. People of good character have the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and…

— Michael Josephson

“Moral experience—the actual possession and exercise of good character—is necessary truly to understand moral principles and profitably to apply them.”

— Aristotle

I like for there to be a moral, for the character to have gotten something out of the experience.

— Jeremy London

It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

— Ryan Reynolds

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings…

— Edmund White