Character Quote by Terry A O'Neal

“As an author, I breathe life into each and every character within the stories that I write. But it is the reader who gives…

— Scott Borgman

“Writers are the most pathetic souls when it comes to expressing their own feelings. Their personalities are as complex as the characters they weave.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista

“Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.”

— Grace Bridges

“...for a novel need not be full of sorrow just because its heroes are suffering.”

— Orhan Pamuk

“Perhaps one of the writer's tasks is to weave himself into others' pain.”

— Julius Lester

“The writer’s special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them.”

— Kay Kenyon

“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.”

— Terry a O'Neal

“Grief and sorrow; both are fervently shape your character.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“It is the size of the characters’ desires that helps to make a sad story a tragedy.”

— Jean Hegland

“Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“In the journal of my misery, each sorrow competes for the first place in length and strength.”

— Ivo Andric