Characters Quotes

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If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters… — Michael Ende
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of… — Michael Ondaatje
I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning… — Laurie Halse Anderson
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when… — Diane Setterfield
...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of… — Jean Genet
Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then… — Anne Frank
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your… — Virginia Woolf
For the traveler we see leaning on his neighbor is an honest and well-meaning man and full of melancholy, like those Chekhov characters so laden… — Orhan Pamuk
You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught… — Gustave Flaubert
Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be… — Samuel Adams
When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look… — Dennis Miller
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects… — Ayn Rand
The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either. — Judy Blume
There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so… — Kurt Vonnegut
Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or… — Salman Rushdie
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform… — Thomas Pynchon
I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid… — Joss Whedon
I'm beginning to feel that no author has the right to tear his characters apart if he doesn't know how, or feel that he knows… — J D Salinger
A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained… — P.G. Wodehouse
I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are… — Dorothy L. Sayers

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