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Character Quotes by Jeffrey Eugenides
- If you think of even Tolstoy or a book like 'Anna Karenina,' you go from character to character, and each section is from the third…
- Basically you come up with the fictional idea and you start writing that story, but then in order to write it and to make it…
- That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I…
- I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
- I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about…
- What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and…
- Depending on the year or the therapist he was seeing, he'd learned to ascribe just about every facet of his character as a psychological reaction…
More Character Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- Actors are hard to photograph because they never want to reveal who they are. You don't know if you're getting a character… — David Bailey
- Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges,… — Richard G. Scott
- Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership. — John C. Maxwell
- Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — Mark Twain