Basics Quote by Vera Nazarian

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And…

— Tamora Pierce

If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work…

— Claire Danes

[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine…

— August Strindberg

There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is…

— Margaret Mahy

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that…

— Francine Rivers

I've taken away everything I could think of, and yet what remains is enough. These days many more people come to my work, and…

— Michael Craig-Martin

A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not something that…

— Edward Norton

One nourishes one's created characters with one's own substance: it's rather like the process of gestation. To give the character life, or to give…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

I usually focus on the whole group of characters in any given work-in-progress, and as a result they become particularly dear to me as…

— Vera Nazarian

Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns,…

— Colin Farrell

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