Character Quote by Lucy Coats Download Open image ““Every writer is the amanuensis to their characters”” — Lucy Coats ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Writing
“Writing is all at once an exploration of what is, and what is not. Of the known, and the unknown. A journey into the… — Madelaine Standing Copy Share Image
“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
“Writers are not exactly storytellers, but scribes for the worlds beyond the grasps, beyond the conceptions of the common mind.” — Bailey Elizabeth Copy Share Image
“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and… — Gregorio C. Brillantes Copy Share Image
“Authors only write what their characters tell them. Which mean we are scribes, and the characters are the author.” — Anna-Cosette Copy Share Image
“Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?” — Alyssa Hubbard Copy Share Image
“And yet, for a writer of fiction, part of the heart remains that of a stranger, for what we are trying to do is… — Margaret Laurence Copy Share Image
“writers are like gods in their own little universes, constantly weaving lives, worlds, people, relationships and conflicts into existence.” — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
“We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty and solitude… — Christian Bobin Copy Share Image
“The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest… — E. Hoffman Price 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