Character-description Quote by Robin Sloan Download Open image ““Oliver daydreams about Ionian columns.”” — Robin Sloan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character-description
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I love how Albert can’t choose one character while Oliver wants to write about everyone.” — Lynda Mullaly Hunt Copy Share Image
“most prized of all, her secretaire, a Napoleon III desk, full of nooks and crannies and pigeonholes,” — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Character is developed out of the choices that we make each day.” — Sharlene Simone Alexander Copy Share Image
“One's own character inevitably comes to resemble the things one spends most of one's day with.” — Antiphon Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“But it will make mistakes," she says. "Hadoop will probably get us from a hundred thousand buildings down to, like, five thousand." "So we're… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND. — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Baking, by contrast, was solving the same problem over and over again, because every time, the solution was consumed. I mean, really: chewed and… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“I tell him, and I write it down as I go. It makes me feel better, as if the weirdness is flowing out of… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
There's just no escaping it: The half-life of media on the Internet is super short. Tweets flow and fade; pages that look great today… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“My limbic system has grown accustomed to a certain (very low) level of human (female) contact. With her standing right next to me, her… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“The shelves were packed close together, and it felt like I was standing at the border of a forest--not a friendly Californian forest, either,… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“How was New York?' Ashley asks politely. I'm not sure how to respond. Something like: Well, the mustachioed master of the secret library is… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
We range widely, we readers of fiction, but I think we all need a home. Mine is science fiction. It's my home shelf, my… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“Neel cuts in: "Where'd you grow up?" "Palo Alto," she says. From there to Stanford to Google: for a girl obsessed with the outer… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
“Standing on the deck of a San Francisco ferryboat, in a gray suit so precisely the same colour as the fog that he seems… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“If you're not who you want to be, at least act like who you want it be. - Bud” — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Once Addie let someone in, she was impossible to forget. There was something about her that crawled inside a person and built a nice… — Kasie West Copy Share Image
“He was drinking Harriet's favourite, cold tea... not iced tea, but hot tea that had cooled. They liked him so much. They liked the… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“I need you to get inside Wayne's head. I need someone who thinks a bit left field and in your own unpleasant way, Helen… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
“I liked it when things went together like that. Not just timing things like the chop/ flick/ knock-stopping, but space things, too. Like all… — Adam Levin Copy Share Image
“He was a compact, clearcut man, with precise features, a lot of very soft black hair, and thoughtful dark brown eyes. He had a… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“They were handy to have around, Nate's little gang. They were that wonderful combination of talented and noble. The former was useful, while the… — Keith R.A. DeCandido Copy Share Image
“People don't tend to employ me. I'm the wrong personality type. Or rather, people do tend to employ me for a short time and… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
