Quotes About Character

CHARACTER background and language filtered through the AUTHOR'S heart, and rendered with craft on the PAGE = VOICE

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Write down the POV character in the scene, the objective, and a list of possible obstacles. Write a tentative outcome. Spend a couple of minutes making a list of unexpected things. Go wild. One of them will please you. Then you're ready to write.

Over the years I've heard some attempts at explanation, and I've jotted them down: • A combination of character, setting, page turning. • A distinctive style, like a Sergio Leone film. • It's who you are. • Personality on the page. • It's something written from your deepest truth. • Your expression as an artist. You'll

To create a memorable voice you must first create a memorable character. Of

Sentence one is character + vocation + current situation. Sentence two starts with "When" and is what I call the Doorway of No Return––the thing that pushes the Lead into the main plot. Sentence three begins with "Now" and the death (physical, professional, or psychological/spiritual) stakes.

The unprofitable game of profiling what could or couldn't be true of Shakespeare's character, based on what his characters said or did, had begun.

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

At least she's not guilty of integrity, and that's more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself.

Make some money but don't let money make you. ~ Tanzanian Proverb

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar.

If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind

Humans were neither all good nor all bad—they were just human and fallible, herself included. With

Everyone has to act out of character sometimes. It's like taking your clothes off: you feel free without your character but very naked, unprotected. Unfinished. So you get dressed again- you put on yourself-and then you know who you are.

Break the character and independence of your man and you will have an obedient trooper.

131: My heart is not proud, G. I am never haughty. Except maybe now, when I'm explaining how very humble I am.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

Nothing is more deceitful, said Darcy, than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

I might as well enquire," replied she, "why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are. It is what we do. Or fail to do...

I cannot forget the follies and vices of others so soon as I ought, nor their offences against myself...My good opinion once lost is lost forever. - Fitzwilliam Darcy