Character Quote by Swami Vivekananda

In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years.

— Frank Spotnitz

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is…

— Ezra Taft Benson

It's an interesting opportunity to do a long-form character and really have the time to find the nuance over an extended period of time.…

— Michelle Monaghan

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries.…

— Henry Miller

“Every one of the big breakthroughs in the art of literature have possibly started as what many would call a ludicrous or even laughable…

— Karl Wiggins

When you come out of the other end of a long process, working with a character [you realize] this character has really shaped my…

— Andy Serkis

But the writer who endures and keeps working will finally know that writing the book was something hard and glorious, for at the desk…

— Andre Dubus

It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work,…

— Gunter Grass

It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea…

— Fay Weldon

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

— Tibor Fischer

Every character is challenging because, at the end of the day, you have to make something out of it.

— Mahira Khan