#character

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. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#creative-process #fiction #realism #truth #writing

Realize that the tests you endure will mold your character, persona, and will. The more heartbreak and pain you will feel with your trials in life, the greater your joy and glory will be once you've overcome. Not IF, not POSSIBLY, not MAYBE, but ONCE you have overcome. ↗

— J. Junior Reynolds II

#glory #heartbreak #joy #life #life-lessons

Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#life #president #ronald-reagan #life

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#character #dessert #food #jellybeans #snacks

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#hypocrisy #inconsistancy #principles #temperament #hypocrisy

Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#nobility #rascals #social #nobility

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. ↗

— John Green

#characters #humor #business

Don't write about Man; write about a man. ↗

— E.B. White

#the-writing-process #writing-process

Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters. ↗

— Teresa Mummert

#reality #writing #writing-process #writing-process

The character of Jesus can only be ultimately known experientially through the indwelling of His Spirit in union with us." ~"The character of Jesus can only be ultimately known experientially through the indwelling of His Spirit in union with us." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#character-defining #character-description #experientially #holy-spirit #incarnational