Character Quote by Joan Acocella Download Open image “The virtue of a piece is the writer’s thoughts.” — Joan Acocella ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Inspirational Love Philosophy of Mind Pieces Virtue Writing
“ Whoever looks for the writer’s thinking in the words and thoughts of his characters is looking in the wrong direction. Seeking out a… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“The thought of the novelist that matters most is the thought that makes him a novelist. The thought of the novelist lies not in… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The form in which thoughts occur to a writer is rarely the same as the form in which they can be absorbed by a… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The habit of committing our thoughts to writing is a powerful means of expanding the mind, and producing a logical and systematic arrangement of… — William Blaikie Copy Share Image
An author who sets his reader on sounding the depths of his own thoughts serves him best. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From the point… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Thinking clearly is a conscious act that writers must force on themselves,” — William Knowlton Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.” — khaled Talib Copy Share Image
“Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself.” — Joan Acocella Copy Share Image
Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour. — Joan Acocella Copy Share Image
Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited in its… — Joan Acocella Copy Share Image
“What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its opposite... ordinary Sunday-school virtues such as tenacity and above all the ability to survive… — Joan Acocella Copy Share Image
“Those who lament the dissolution of the American family-kids with no way to get to Girl Scouts, aging parents put into nursing homes-should remember… — Joan Acocella 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
