Characters Quotes (page 4)

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• small
• may
• moments

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. Phillips Brooks

• moments
• character
• moment

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain. George Saunders

• life
• running
• character

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. Theodore Roosevelt

• success
• experience
• achievement

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller

• change
• responsibility
• character

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming. Jim Rohn

• dark
• character
• development

Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness. Yousuf Karsh

• simple
• character
• construction

Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs. Kathryn Bigelow

• good
• moments
• character

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed. Cavett Robert

• determination
• character
• experience

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. Friedrich Nietzsche

• personality
• character
• personal

Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest. Thomas John Barnardo

• life
• character
• fiction

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction. Donna Tartt

• character
• may
• meanness

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. Aristotle

• time
• strength
• character

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength.[From a 1986 Fangoria interview] James Cameron

• black
• happy
• film

I think there should be more black characters, and more of all kinds of characters, in fiction. Almost all of the main characters in my novel Anansi Boys are black. And there are black characters in featured roles in all the other novels except Stardust and Coraline. (Something I was happy to see was not the case in Henry Selick’s film.) Neil Gaiman

• life
• evening
• may

There is one final point, the point that separates a true multivolume work from a short story, a novel, or a series. The ending of the final volume should leave the reader with the feeling that he has gone through the defining circumstances of Main Character's life. The leading character in a series can wander off into another book and a new adventure better even than this one. Main Character cannot, at the end of your multivolume work. (Or at least, it should seem so.) His life may continue,... Gene Wolfe