Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“People are naturally drawn to characters that are obviously good at what they do. Have you ever wondered why you might identify”

— Rob Parnell

The writer is a person who is standing apart, like the cheese in 'The Farmer in the Dell' standing there alone but deciding to…

— Anne Lamott

“In a gathering, a writer's eyes act as an intrepid explorers. When alone, he murmurs to himself posing as his characters. When invited to…

— Gaurav Sharma

“Sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they are discarded…

— Bill Buxton

“And, as in the case of sensible images, if the artist look without distraction upon the archetypal form, not distracted by sight of anything…

— Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

“To spend time observing, without drawing, thinking, without drawing, or feeling, without drawing, is the misfortune of nonartists.”

— Nick Meglin

“If you want to discover the true character of a person, you have only to observe what they are passionate about.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Attempts at description are stupid. Who can all at once describe a human being? Even when he is presented to us we only begin…

— George Eliot

“I knew I could not sketch a woman, in all her natural inner beauty. I may have the perfect skill, but putting something in…

— Deepak Ranjan

“The fact of the matter is that readers and audiences are never blank slates: individuals see in a work whatever they need to see…

— Christopher Bram

“Character = the ability to meet the demands of reality.”

— Henry Cloud

“Writers help summon people to a vision of human betterment...They create an awareness not just to things as they are, but as they ought…

— Lilian Gafni