Character Quote by Hermann Hesse

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

— Hermann Hesse

“The whole plot was a sinister drollery, the simple delight of stirring up great crowds to die and kill, of one who could not…

— William Bolitho

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

— David Gemmell

“I learned a lot, when I was a child, from novels and stories, even fairytales have some point to them--the good ones. The thing…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and…

— Nenia Campbell

Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.

— Silvia Cartwright

What everyone is always afraid of is the unknown, or the unfamiliar. You got to have a look for a character that is mysterious…

— Scott Derrickson

It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that…

— Edith Wharton

“The trouble with taking away the certainty of evil was that its vacuum was filled by all kinds of more nebulous threats, rivalries, and…

— Karen Traviss

“The sinister is always the unintelligible, the impressive, the numinous. Wherever something divine appears, we begin to experience fear. . . . Everything that…

— Daniel Hecht

Villains are kind of hard to really know on a personal level when you see them as mean, unsensitive-type people.

— Wilt Chamberlain

They were becoming like a little Mafia. If one committed a mischief, the others would not tell.

— Franco Diligenti