Books Quote by Joseph Telushkin

Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.

— Vanna Bonta

Great novels have great characterization no matter what. But multiple points of view let me examine characters from entirely different perspectives, allowing me to…

— Sabaa Tahir

“The only classification to be made out of humans should be based on character and nothing but the character.”

— Abhijit Naskar

We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow…

— Kari Matchett

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

— David Corbett

“It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one person in…

— Sōseki Natsume

Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one…

— Sada Thompson

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the…

— Lynne Truss

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

— Muriel Spark

“...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

“Rather, in discussions of books we should cast characters not in terms of stable character traits, but in terms of internal states, feelings, intentions,…

— Peter H. Johnston

Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow…

— Kari Matchett