Quotes About Character

Conflict must be personalized to the character. If you don't know your story people and motivate them, you won't have a strong conflict. A vague or general motivating force produces a vague and general plot. Being specific will increase the emotional intensity of your story.

The most efficient way to write a walk-on character is to use stereotypes, because the reader already has an impression. This, of course, depends on the length of your story and the importance of the character.

Avoid ending a scene with your character going to bed. Your reader will shut off the light and go to sleep, too.

But an ethical and evolved life also entails telling the truth about oneself and living out that truth.

I've been on the cover of 'Time' magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. I've worked with teams all my life, but I've been nice and I've been kind.

The photo was shaking in his hand. It wasn't just an act of love he was looking at. This was something dirty, pornographic. The kind of thing some grimy character might try to sell you on a shadowy street in a Mexican border town. Hey, you wanna buy some dirty peek-chures?

Batman was the only D.C. title in the bunch, and just barely. He had liked the movies more than the books, but there was something about the character that he just couldn't dismiss. Maybe it was the fact that Batman was just a man with a neat suit. No super powers, no glowing rocks, no fast-motion – just a man with a mission. Man with a mission.

Because knowledge is not for showing off. If I do good work, people should notice me.

If a father buys his child toffees instead of books for school, it may make for a happy child. But does it make a good father?

Dress down. Charisma comes from integrity, competence and compassion. Not from expensive clothes.

They say that the test of a person's character is how he or she treats those less powerful than him or her.

The test of a nation's character is how its majority citizens treat minorities.

Beyond a point, people want money to buy respect,' she would tell me when I was a kid. 'Respect, however, can't be bought. You have to earn it.

Agi como um esnobe, que como vocês devem saber, significa indivíduo sem nobreza.

Tiger father begets tiger son.

A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water.

My dear boy... anybody can be good in the country.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

Be father to virtue, but father-in-law to vice.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice.

All bow to virtue — and then walk away.

Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.