Character Quote by Jim Brown

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

— Oscar Wilde

The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

— Stephen King

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds…

— Neil Gaiman

“A person who does not read, or reads little, or reads only trash, is a person with an impediment: he can speak much but…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should…

— Isabel Allende

There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.

— David Mitchell

People are a mass of inconsistencies.

— Mrthrill

“Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies.”

— Betty Smith

The more of my readers I encounter who say, often apologetically, that they are actually listeners, the more I write for the ear rather…

— H. W. Brands

Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.

— Sara Sheridan

Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very…

— Richard Armitage

I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.

— Susan Fiske