Characters Quotes - Page 3

And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back in the summer with which it begins, and finally, instead of following the hero onto the cliffs of suicide, joyfully turns back to that summer, content to stay there forever.

In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should.

I spend many hours in conversation with wonderful characters from fantastic books.

French Louis Seymour of the West Canada Creek, who knew how to survive all alone in a treacherous wilderness, and Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt of New York City and Raquette Lake, who was richer than God and traveled in his very own Pullman car, and Emmie Hubbard of the Uncas Road, who painted the most beautiful pictures when she was drunk and burned them in her woodstove when she was sober, were all ten times more interesting to me than Milton's devil or Austen's boy-crazy girls or that twitchy fool of Poe's who couldn't think of any place better to bury a body than under his own damn floor.

Jennifer Donnelly

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

Jo Walton

All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes -- characters even -- caught in the fibers of your clothes, and when you open the new book, they are still with you.

Diane Setterfield

There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that’s been so for ages.(....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us… so don’t get discouraged if I didn’t mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day…

Ana Claudia Antunes

There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that’s been so for ages.(....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us… so don’t get discouraged if I didn’t mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day…

Ana Claudia Antunes

Stop talking filthy things, It doesn't help anyone.

Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.

Israelmore Ayivor

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge.

[W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so to speak. And it must not be thought that this is an 'idealistic' position, as if I were saying that the characters have an autonomous life and the author, in a kind of trance, makes them behave as they themselves direct him. That kind of nonsense belongs in term papers. The fact is that the characters are obliged to act according to the laws of the world in which they live. In other words, the narrator is the prisoner of his own premises.

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.

Christopher Stocking

Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly.

Jorge Luis Borges

Most people carry their demons around with them, buried down deep inside. Writers wrestle their demons to the surface, fling them onto the page, then call them characters.

C.K. Webb

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Don Roff

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.

In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.

Jefferson Smith

As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are.

Quentin Tarantino

Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of."[From the preface.]

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Over the years I have forged intimate familial ties with these characters, who are reflections of a portion of myself. Consequently, even a character who appeared only once in a short story waits now in the wings, concealed by the curtain, for his next appearance on-stage. Not one of them has ever broken free of his familial ties with me and disappeared for ever - at least, not within the confines of my heart.

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.

Shannon L. Alder

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!", May 10, 1886)

I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them...But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing, Anne.

L.M. Montgomery

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there’s not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).

Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.

Karen Tei Yamashita

The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.

Seed becomes tree, son becomes stranger.

Before you worry about the beauty of your body, worry about the health of your body.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

The world is administered by rich but it is constructed by poor.

Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.

A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.

My spouse is my shield, my spouse is my strength.

Principles in a poor is admirable as politeness in a prince.

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.

Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.

In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.

Civilians enjoy their time because soldiers sacrifice their time.

Before we complicated life with money, machines and missiles we did well with morals, manpower and meetings.

Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.

The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.

Words are better than weapons, wisdom is better than war.

Don't compare the size of your roof with the size of the sky.

Brilliance of the brain must be admired more than beauty of the body.

Uniform of a soldier and uniform of a student both are equally needed for the nation.

Simplicity saves strength.

Action achieves ambition.

Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.

A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits.

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