Characters Quotes

Characters Quote of the day

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.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did: the universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

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

T[he rules of writing] require that the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you.

Writing complex characters is the penultimate exercise in empathy.

In writing, a good guy must never break any of the Ten Commandments. A bad guy must break every one. That's why writing female characters is so much fun. They're not GUYS at all.

When the river meets the sea, he dies! Because the character of the river is to flow and when the character dies, everything dies!

You can't have too much dog in a book.

Whatever you guys call it. Man up. Get your panties out of a wad. Put on your big boy shorts. Grow a set.

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

Each time I discovered a potential link between one character’s story and another’s, several more connections would reveal themselves, like a beautiful, complex web spinning itself.

What are you? The pregnant MacGyver?” “Best compliment I’ve had in a while.

With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.

The Baby Name book can be a very dangerous tool in the hands of a prolific author.

She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told her to be.

I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn

A good novel, one which entices the author as much as it beckons the reader.

We live in a society where mutual respect and appreciation should be considered one of the pillars of modern life.

Don’t interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own.

A novel must show how the world truly is, how characters genuinely think, how events actually occur. A novel should somehow reveal the true source of our actions.

He walked right to her, his long strides eating the space between them and sucking the oxygen in front of her

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

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.

And although he recognized that tenderness was not the same as passion, and certainly not equivalent to love, for now it seemed to him a suitable substitute.

Was she happy? She thought – yes, reasonably so. Then again, what was happiness but the vast terrain between ecstasy and agony? Was this too small an ambition?

Chocolate cake and a diamond ring? In bed with the man of my dreams?

If anything normal were useful it would have been done already. That's why my motto is "Dare to Differ." Who know's what you'll find ?

Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.

Holy swoonballs!

And you, are Ruin, the chosen Carnificem, and WOE is what you're all about, it's your purpose. Doom and Gloom. ~Caliber Creed

Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in vain, he was able to justify his presence.

If you ever meet someone who thinks they are so special, the best thing to do is smile. You don’t have to say anything. Be friendly and then go doyour best. That will make you special, too!

So, what you're saying is, just because a warrior is a woman doesn't mean they yhave to wear a chain mail bikini? Like, they could wear...real armor?

An invention is a responsibility of the individual, society cannot invent, it can only applaud the invention and inventor.

It was almost as if she had willed him into existence, into standing before her at the precise moment she was willing to accommodate him, arriving not a minute too early or too late.

You only fix something, when it’s broken. And you - are far from broken.

Most people surrendered fairy tale hopes in exchange for cookie cutter lives

A true professional not only follows but loves the processes, policies and principles set by his profession.

Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life.

His fierce appreciation of female beauty, the unrelenting desire he felt for their company, the pleasure he both derived and sought to give, had led him in and out of quite a few bedroom doors.

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.

When giving up is not an option, you survive at any cost.

You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.

A professional who doesn't deliver as committed is not just lazy, he is a liar.

The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence.

Good becomes better by playing against better, but better doesn't become the best by playing against good.