Character Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche Download Open image “He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character.” — Friedrich Nietzsche ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Discovery Dramatic Personality
He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads. — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything,… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of self-generating cement… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears it and… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It breaks my heart. Better than your words, your eye tells me all your peril. You are not yet free, you still search for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“What is life? Life - that is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Life - that is: being cruel and inexorable against everything… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“he does not wear a twitching, mobile, human face, but rather a mask, as it were, with its features in dignified equilibrium; he does… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
