Character Quote by Salmon Rushdie Download Open image ““All novelists know that crisis reveals character.”” — Salmon Rushdie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character
“A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.” — Amaya Ellman Copy Share Image
“as only an insider can, and he brings that expertise to his prose, creating one of the most truthful, accurate, and tension-filled suspense novels… — Garret Holms Copy Share Image
“Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets.” — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
“There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.” — Marc Levy Copy Share Image
“Every story is part of a whole, entire life, you know? Happy and sad and tragic and whatever, but an entire life. And books… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“...if human nature were not a mystery, we'd have no need of poets.” — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
“All games have morals; and the game of Snakes and Ladders captures, as no other activity can hope to do, the eternal truth that… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Trapped inside a metaphor, I've often felt the need to re-describe it, to change the terms. This isn't so much a balloon, I've wanted… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Why do we care about singers? Wherein lies the power of songs? Maybe it derives from the sheer strangeness of there being singing in… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Once before, my daughter,' she said, ignoring Ahmed's continuing ravings, 'your father and I, whatsitsname, said there was no shame in leaving an inadequate… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Literature tried to open the universe, to increase, even if only slightly the sum total of what it was possible for human beings to… — Salmon Rushdie Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
