Character Quotes

9624 Character quotes by 4950 unique authors

When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on… — Bill Roorbach
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The… — Mark Twain
It's wonderful to watch a pretty woman with character grow beautiful. — Mignon McLaughlin
I remember reading this thing that Elizabeth Taylor wrote. She had her first kiss in character. On a movie set. It really struck me. I… — Emma Watson
The character is everything that I felt strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things and I realized that I… — Emma Watson
People just project their idea of my character on to me and they just seem to assume that I'm the same, when, in reality, I'm… — Robert Pattinson
It's been a tough season for all of us, but all we can do is keep fighting and showing character to the end of the… — John Terry
Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers. But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared. This, pre-eminently,… — Josiah Johnson Hawes
I liked a lot of Tyler's character, the rebelliousness and audaciousness of it, it's like a fantasy of myself, like yeah, I'm the kind of… — Robert Pattinson
The annihilation of a woman's personality, individuality, will, character, is prerequisite to male sexuality. — Andrea Dworkin
I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted… — Henry Adams
Remember what Bogie and my mother both used to say: 'Character is the most important thing. All that matters is character!' — Lauren Bacall
A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results. — Sun Tzu
But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected… — Tennessee Williams
Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance — Albert Einstein
The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our… — Ella Maillart
What is either a picture or a novel that is not character? — Henry James
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and… — Louis Auchincloss
If you do not have an alert and curious interest in character and dramatic situation, if you have no visual imagination and are unable to… — Unknown Author
In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply… — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
I never started from ideas but always from character. — Ivan Turgenev
The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble… — Mark Twain
One of my standard - and fairly true - responses to the question as to how story ideas come to me is that story ideas… — Roger Zelazny
I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end of the principal… — George R. R. Martin
I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what… — George R. R. Martin

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