Books Quote by Janice Hardy

“The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.”

— Aristotle

“Great fiction is the art of a soul.”

— Douglas Christiansen

“And this book is - instead of my body, And this word is - instead of my soul.”

— Anonymous

“Mine could not be a story about the building of character, but about its erosion, about the slow accumulation of small forces and events…

— Gonzalo Munevar

“Character is the very life of fiction. Setting exists only so that the character has someplace to stand. Plot exists so the character can…

— John Gardner

“Plot comes from the mind but the characters come from the heart!”

— Varsha Dixit

“I am a writer: to the core of my being, the marrow of my bones. . . to the depth of my very soul.…

— Valjeanne Jeffers

“Every story holds insight into the writer's soul. If the soul can't be found, the writer didn't bleed enough.”

— M.L. Stephens

“Characters are limbs that writers use to kill with.”

— Joseph Eastwood

“Writing is too goddamned hard for me to think about a soul in teh world ... I don't think about a soul, but just…

— Ernest J. Gaines

“The awakened and knowing say: body I am entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis