Character Quote by Graham Greene

Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.

— Tom Riley

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality,…

— J. G. Ballard

I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a…

— Frederick Locker-Lampson

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The objectivity we sought was the power to recollect — if not in tranquillity, at least in 'dispassion' and this power is rarely granted…

— Richard Crossman

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the…

— Graham Greene

I'm way past the idea of using ideology or political view as a gauge of human character. I simply don't believe it. And many…

— James Ellroy

“First, human character was varied. Second, pleasure lay less in feeling things than in doing things, that is in pursuits and activities. Last, certain…

— Edmund Fawcett

On or about December 1910, human character changed.

— Virginia Woolf

“Whereas our words represent our person, our character is our very person. A person’s usefulness, the things which can be entrusted to him, the…

— Witness Lee

The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in…

— Philip Zimbardo

Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement.

— Saul Bellow