Art Quote by Gustave Flaubert

“...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to…

— Harold Bloom

I see myself as different characters in my music, but all pertaining to real life.

— Quincy Brown

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters…

— Alice Hoffman

“The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, thought it takes different forms - prose passages in this first volume, poems and philosophies in other volumes.…

— Fernando Pessoa

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

— Manuel Puig

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to…

— Margaret Mahy

There are characters in some short stories who exist as people, and there are other characters in different short stories who exist as purely…

— Neil Gaiman

I am very willing to admit that I have some poetical abilities, and as few - if any - writers, either moral or political,…

— Robert Burns

“Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial. We know…

— Pierre Bayard

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

— Dario Argento

...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak…

— Jean Genet

I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

— Isaac Rosenberg