All Quotes By Tag: Characters
“Truth is irrelevant; what matters is what people believe.”
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“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
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“Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.”
“The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience … The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won’t sue.”
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“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.”
“You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.”
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“In your name, the family name is at last because it’s the family name that lasts.”
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“Great losses are great lessons.”
“I don’t know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you’re brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.”
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“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”
“Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.”
“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”
“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”
“All worries are less with wine.”
“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.”
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