Characters Quotes

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You know that feeling,â€ she said, â€œwhen you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can… — Cassandra Clare
Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable: Hemingway has Catherine die from hemorrhaging after their child is stillborn. It is the most torturous ending… — Matthew Quick
So Iâ€™m thinking this is the part of my movie where things appear as if nothing is going to work out. I have to remind… — Matthew Quick
If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids. A lot of… — Chris Colfer
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America… — Tennessee Williams
I hate those TV shows where characters talk about one thing, such as their patient on the operation table (let's say they're a doctor), then… — Jaclyn Moriarty
I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me. — Lian Hearn
I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of… — Benedict Cumberbatch
But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform… — Mohsin Hamid
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular… — Anne Carson
If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and… — Robert Pattinson
His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves. — Marisha Pessl
I didn't know how to explain what I meant; sociopathy wasn't just being emotionally deaf, it was being emotionally mute, too. I felt like the… — Dan Wells
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age? — William Shakespeare
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money,… — Erma Bombeck
One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. — Oscar Wilde
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters. — Anne Frank
I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give… — Confucius

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