Quotes About Character

a story involves a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

I found myself wanting even better stories. And that's the thing you'll realize when you organize your life into the structure of story. You'll get a taste for one story and then want another, and then another, and the stories will build until you're living a kind of epic of risk and reward, and the whole thing will be molding you into the actual character whose roles you've been playing.

There was also no character arc. Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story.

The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It's about your character getting molded in the hard work of the middle.

Suffering, as absurd as it seemed, pointed to a greater story in which, if one would only construe himself as a character within, he could find fulfillment in his tragic role, knowing the plot was heading toward redemption.

What people believe is more important than how they look, what their skills are, or their degree of passion.

I knew all about story at this point, about how you have to create a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

Storytellers use the guide character to encourage the hero and equip them to win the day.

I only say this about the children because I used to believe charming people were charming because they were charming, or confident people were confident because they were confident. But all this is, of course, circular. The truth is, we are all living out the character of the roles we have played in our stories.

In fact, most stories start with a character who wants something followed by a scene in which an enormous challenge is placed between where the character is and what the character wants.

Una historia, en dos palabras A esto se reducen, «en dos palabras», prácticamente todas las historias que oyes o ves: un PERSONAJE que quiere algo se encuentra con un PROBLEMA que le impide conseguirlo. En el momento de máxima desesperación, aparece un GUÍA en su vida que le da un PLAN y LE LANZA UN LLAMAMIENTO A ACTUAR. Esa acción contribuye a evitar que FRACASE y, de hecho, acaba culminando en un ÉXITO. Y eso es todo

IF THE POINT of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

The point of a story is the character arc, the change.

You can call it God or a conscience, or you can dismiss it as that intuitive knowing we all have as human beings, as living storytellers; but there is a knowing I feel that guides me toward better stories, toward being a better character.

And that's the thing you'll realize when you organize your life into the structure of story. You'll get a taste for one story and then want another, and then another, and the stories will build until you're living a kind of epic of risk and reward, and the whole thing will be molding you into the actual character whose roles you've been playing.

What I believe is not what I say I believe, what I believe is what I do.

I'm convinced every person has a longing that will never be fulfilled and it's our job to let it live and breathe and suffer within it as a way of developing our character.

Some people think of it as the longing for God, and I think they're on to something. In my opinion, though, that longing will never be satisfied in our lifetime. In other words, I'm convinced every person has a longing that will never be fulfilled and it's our job to let it live and breathe and suffer within it as a way of developing our character.

You put your characters through hell. You put them through hell. That's the only way we change.

Having integrity is about being the same person on the inside that we are on the outside, and if we don't have integrity, life becomes exhausting.

living your words, walking your talk, and talking your walk.

We train ourselves to overlook or ignore them; sometimes these failures of character even fill us with a special kind of tenderness that has nothing whatsoever in it of a sense of superiority.

Guilo, although a lawyer, never lied; at least not to his friends.

The man looked to be about the same age as Paola, though he clearly had a harder time getting there...His nose was flat, as though it had once been broken, and his eyes were sad, as though his heart had been. He looked like a stevedore who wrote poetry.