#character

The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no physical tangibility whatsoever. They were pictures in the reader's head, constructs of imagination and ideas, given shape by the writer's work and skill and the reader's imagination. Parents, of a sort. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#characters #ideas #imagination #readers #writers

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#character #humor #humor-inspirational #humor

Speak less and listen more. ↗

— Zai

#inspirational #inspirational

A book is simply a snap shot of the full story. ↗

— Erica Goros

#life-stories #stories #life

Sticks and stones build strong houses ↗

— Melody Carstairs

#sticks-and-stones #strength-of-character #inspirational

It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life. ↗

— Jane Austen

#emma #integrity #jane-austen #man #trick

The tenth gift is Wisdom. Guiding your way, wisdom will lead you through knowledge to understanding. May you hear its soft voice. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#character-building #inner-guidance #inspiration #self-worth #wisdom

You’re noble enough, Baudelaires. That’s all we can ask for in this world. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#inspirational #inspirational

The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul. ↗

— David O. McKay

#david-o-mckay #goals #life

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#genius #life #life