Top Characters Quotes

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

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

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life:1. Leadership without character.2. Followership without servant-being.3. Brotherhood without integrity.4. Affluence without wisdom.5. Authority without consc...

You can lead if you can serve. You can serve when you can love. You can love when you are graced. The truth is that God knows love will be needed in volumes, this is why he made his grace abundant. Le...

Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis.

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books.

...because there's a secret order. The books, you can't place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoj.And I thought, if close to Anna Karenina we have Don Quixote, sure the latter w...

The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them.

In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessional exists. We know each other approximately, by external signs, and these serve well enough as a basi...

There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.

A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went...

Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.

Most people carry their demons around with them, buried down deep inside. Writers wrestle their demons to the surface, fling them onto the page, then call them characters.

GreenHollyWood is a bad character, fat, liking jokes, liking jokes about size, about the large, about the how big are you. Likes to laugh when you make a mistake, ... but but he is a teacher?! With a...

In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations!", May 10, 1886)

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 writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

What's real and what's not? People we meet in books--Holden Caulfield, Captain Ahab, Huckleberry Finn, Harry Potter, Bilbo and Gandalf and Frodo-- can become more memorable, and more important to us t...