Back and forth Quote by David Corbett

“Rather, in discussions of books we should cast characters not in terms of stable character traits, but in terms of internal states, feelings, intentions,…

— Peter H. Johnston

A story is built on characters and reasons.

— Steven Amsterdam

Character is just what we inwardly are and outwardly do.

— Sri Chinmoy

“An important feature of good characterization in a novel is that the characters are dimensionalized and are not all of one piece. Human beings,…

— Joseph Telushkin

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish…

— George Saunders

What's important is how the character drives the narrative.

— Tridha Choudhury

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told.…

— Paul Ricoeur

“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.”

— Flannery O'Connor

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the…

— Lynne Truss

“A character’s façade, then, is an outer manifestation of an inner conflict.”

— John Yorke

“A story is entirely determined by what portion of time it chooses to narrate.”

— Joan Silber

“a person’s true character is rarely revealed until they are staring into the face of adversity.”

— J.T. Ellison