Books Quote by Luigi Pirandello

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.

— Edouard Bourdet

One nourishes one's created characters with one's own substance: it's rather like the process of gestation. To give the character life, or to give…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to…

— V. S. Naipaul

This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a…

— Milan Kundera

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his…

— John Stuart Mill

a personality devoted uniquely to its own development absorbs other lives.

— Georgette Leblanc

At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is…

— Maria Montessori

“Not the free individual but the lost individual; not Independence but isolation; not self-discovery but self-obsession; not the conquer but to be conquered; these…

— Robert A. Nisbet

“A great number of elements in the characters’ lives, both psychic and factual, are not communicated to us. […] These characters, I believe, enjoy…

— Pierre Bayard

“This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence has a bearing on creative work as much as…

— Viktor Frankl