Characters Quotes

2913 quotes by 1993 authors

As many know, the Chinese expression for "crisis" consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for "danger," the second the… — Al Gore
I like to think of what happens to characters in good novels and stories as knots--things keep knotting up. And by the end of the… — Terry McMillan
You can't blame a writer for what the characters say. — Truman Capote
There are no new stories. It all depends on how you handle them. In romances the characters are going to fall in love with each… — Jude Deveraux
In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of… — Lisa See
The best morals kids get from any book is just the capacity to empathize with other people, to care about the characters and their feelings.… — Louis Sachar
All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the mother of morons,… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly. — Jorge Luis Borges
Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character who… — Shusaku Endo
People come, people go â€“ theyâ€™ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the… — Nicholas Sparks
The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.… — Milan Kundera
Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens… — Nick Hornby
A literary creation can appeal to us in all sorts of ways-by its theme, subject, situations, characters. But above all it appeals to us by… — Boris Pasternak
I met Pendragon when I made the journey to the far desert. He is from the tribe known as...as..." Loor was scrambling. Bokka didn't know… — D. J. MacHale
Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been… — Thurgood Marshall
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this… — Azar Nafisi
O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too,… — Albert Camus
Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages — Isabel Allende
A reader doesn't really see the characters in a story; he feels them. — Cornelia Funke
The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care… — Donald Miller

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