#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

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded."... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be. ↗

— Donald O. Clifton

#strength-of-character #age

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

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

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#always #breath #character #character actors #come

I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character. ↗

— Lisa See

#about #because #character #characters #create

Character forms a life regardless of how obscurely that life is lived and how little light falls on it from the stars. ↗

— James Hillman

#jung #psychology #life