#character

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#author #character #consistent #drew #ever

Character, I am sure, lies in the genes. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#character #genes #i #i am #lies

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want. ↗

— Robert Carlyle

#change #character #different #every #film

Character must be kept bright as well as clean. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#character #clean #kept #must #well

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#equality #feminism #beauty

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#feeling #give #i #image #knowing

The maxims of men reveal their characters. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#maxims #men #reveal #their

I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#good-and-bad #humor #humour #life #life-and-living

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#away #characteristics #communities #daughter #globally

Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#coming #creating #ideas #only #outlining