Character Quote by Graham Greene Download Open image “That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.” — Graham Greene ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Creativity Humans Imaginative Inherent Instinct Nature of man Writing
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 Copy Share Image
Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true. — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“All deeply good characters in imaginative literature, have to be, as it were, diluted with weakness or eccentricity; for only on such conditions are… — Nicholas Murray Copy Share Image
“[Imagination] is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“One of the shining exceptions in personalities is that writers do not need to be charismatic in their own persons; they are free to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the… — Graham Greene 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
