Approach Quote by Rose Leslie

A character is a completely fashioned will.

— Novalis

“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

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

— Frederick William Faber

Our character is our will; for what we will we are.

— Henry Edward Manning

Character teaches above our wills.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you read something and you want to do it, nothing gets in your way, you figure out how to bring that character to…

— Fred Hechinger

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

— Alberto Moravia

Everybody's going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings from their…

— Peter Cullen

You always want to put your character through different experiences and see how it shapes their worldview.

— Mary Wiseman

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the…

— Luigi Pirandello

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Freedom of the will is a psychological fiction.

— Louis Berkhof