Quotes About Character

I'm the suburbs of a non-existent town, the long-winded commentary on a book never written. I'm no one, no one at all. I don't know how to feel, how to think, how to want. I'm a character of an unwritten novel, wafting in the air, dispersed without ever been, among the dreams of someone who didn't know how to complete me

Be pure, not in order to be noble or strong, but to be yourself.

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

Accept din t?rie de caracter. M-am n?scut ÅŸi eu,ca toat? lumea,supus erorilor ÅŸi defectelor, Dar nicicând erorii de a dori s? înÅ£eleg prea mult, Nicicând erorii de a dori s? înÅ£eleg numai cu inteligenÅ£a, Nicicând defectului de a-i cere lumii Ceva care s? nu fie lume.

I haven't learned yet to be the instrument of unconscious good.

A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.

He is as crazy as bedamned, an incontestable character and a man of ungovernable inexactitudes.

Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

In most good stories it is the character's personalty that creates the action of the story.

Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices.

Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.

Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is presented in such a way that the reader has the sense that it is unfolding around him. This doesn't mean he has to identify himself with the character or feel compassion for the character or anything like that. It just means that fiction has to be largely presented rather than reported. Another way to say it is that though fiction is a narrative art, it relies heavily on the element of drama.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live, and so far as he is concerned, a living deformed character is acceptable and a dead whole one is not.

There were two round photographs of an old man and woman with collapsed mouths and another picture of a man whose eyebrows dashed out of two bushes of hair and clashed in a heap on the bridge of his nose; the rest of his face stuck out like a bare cliff to fall from.

The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live, and so as far as he is concerned, a living deformed character is acceptable and a dead whole one is not. The Christian writer particularly will feel that whatever his initial gift is, it comes from God; and no matter how minor a gift it is, he will not be willing to destroy it by trying to use it outside its proper limits.

My heroine already is, and is Hulga.

He had measured five feet four inches of pure gamecock.

She would have been a good woman," the Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life

I loved working on '90210,' and I liked playing Ozzy because he was different from everybody else. And it was great because I got a great fan base.

I still get fan mail for Columbo.

I never really enjoy the thought of fancy dress.

One character I always thought I could play is the Thing from 'Fantastic Four.' Another character I've always loved as a fan is Colossus. If there was a way to make that happen that worked, I would love to be Colossus.