Character-description Quote by Robin Sloan

“That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about…

— Wallace Stegner

“The geologic column is a bunch of balarky.”

— Anonymous

“Components of his experiences seemed to break down, sorting into hard facts, like a series of crystals, as if they could be arranged, made…

— Brent Hayward

“When he wasn’t busy chasing unseen mice around the academy, Ion spent hours in the Borean Study, searching through dusty books for anything that…

— Nikolas Lee

“Oliver's boardroom was actually a library. A good library. A library where books looked worn-out and well read and loved on. The library was…

— Natalie Lloyd

“I love how Albert can’t choose one character while Oliver wants to write about everyone.”

— Lynda Mullaly Hunt

“most prized of all, her secretaire, a Napoleon III desk, full of nooks and crannies and pigeonholes,”

— Edna O'Brien

“Character is developed out of the choices that we make each day.”

— Sharlene Simone Alexander

“One's own character inevitably comes to resemble the things one spends most of one's day with.”

— Antiphon

“I understand that he is made up of working cells, just like me--crowded and confused pieces of genius that have been tampered with and…

— Elizabeth Berg

“Make your characters interested in something. Striving for something. In need of something. Good at something. This will make them likeable and interesting.”

— James Franco

“He wants the minute and secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.”

— Michael Ondaatje