Time Quote by Philip Roth

“In our lives, we don’t always get what we deserve or what we want. But how we deal with those misfortunes mold our character.”

— Jeff Wheeler

“We live in our tales of ourselves. . . and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of…

— Gregory Maguire

“A writer must empathize with all of their characters because he is the one that bestowed upon them both joy and misery.”

— Terry A O'Neal

“Struggle shapes our character. And character dictates what we will become.”

— Jeff Goins

“What we decide to do in the face of adversity is perhaps the truest measure of character.”

— Ian Usher

“Lost in this awful world, rubbing shoulders with the multitudes, I am like a tired man whose eye can't see behind him, in the…

— Charles Baudelaire

“A lot of people were wounded in our kitchen and in the week of a car less than a mile away. And the life…

— Sophie Littlefield

“All the people who try to torment me, and who have now occupied the entire space around me, will quite gradually be thrust back…

— Franz Kafka

“he explains that tragedy’s most cruel lesson is not that human beings are flawed, or that fate can be unkind, but that no one…

— Jean Hegland

“In the past few months, life had lost its sweetness and he’d lost his way. But no longer. Death was once again the enemy,…

— Sharon Kay Penman

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“...for a novel need not be full of sorrow just because its heroes are suffering.”

— Orhan Pamuk