Bad thing Quote by Roxane Gay

“I am often drawn to unlikable characters, to those who behave in socially unacceptable ways, say whatever is on their mind, and do what…

— Roxane Gay

“Only you could take one of my worst character faults and turn it into a virtue.”

— Susan Andersen

“Odd people do good things. There are good and bad in all people and that’s why it’s worth appealing to the good in people.…

— Rufus Sewell

We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.

— Alice Mattison

“Character is less about what we do wrong And All about what we make right…”

— Navonne Johns

“If you can’t be of good character, write a good character.”

— Rosen Trevithick

“Never let something you want to happen in a story tie the hands of your characters and especially not your villain. If your hero…

— Alex Woolfson

“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

“Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.”

— Denis Waitley

“A good character in a novel brings out emotions from your past and plants them in front of you - as terrifying as that…

— Conrad Brasso

“In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don’t know how to…

— Soseki Natsume

“Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.”

— Ernest Hemingway