C Quotes
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“Characters of fiction are authors’ children and critics’ neighbors, even if we perceive them as inadequate, nevertheless, we should appreciate the fact that they are the products of someone’s imagination, however limited that might be. It’s not often that you come across a book from which you could quote much,”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“Characters of fiction are authors’ children and critics’ neighbors. Even if we perceive them as inadequate, nevertheless, we should appreciate the fact that they were the products of someone’s imagination, however limited that might have been. It’s not often that you come across a book from which you could quote much.”
Source: Benign Flame: Saga of Love
“Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.”
“Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as "real life," do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.”
“Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.”
Source: Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
“Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be regarded as a limbo from which discerning authors could draw their characters as required, creating only when they failed to find a suitable existing puppet. The modern novel should be largely a work of reference. Most authors spend their time saying what has been said before – usually said much better. A wealth of references to existing works would acquaint the reader instantaneously with the nature of each character, would obviate tiresome explanations and would effectively preclude mountebanks, upstarts, thimble-riggers and persons of inferior education from an understanding of contemporary literature.”
Source: At Swim-two-birds
“Characters should on the whole, be under rather than over articulate. What they intend to say should be more evident, more striking (because of its greater inner importance to the plot) than what they arrive at saying.”
Source: Pictures and conversations
“Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they almost always leave. When a character, after drinking some coffee and briefly telling her story, wants dinner and then a place to sleep and then breakfast and so on, for me the time has come to write the novel.”
“Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the page.”
Source: One Writer's Beginnings
“Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character...tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game.”
“Characters that are not the norm or a bit out of the ordinary are always a challenge as an actress. You learn more by using different tools for those type of characters. They are always much more fun to play and much more interesting. They take you places that you wouldn't necessarily go in your everyday life.”
“Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that makes the novel possible. Change the limits and the force leaves. The novel becomes impossible.”
“Characters who are absolutely sure about what they do, who plunge ahead without fear, are not that interesting. We don’t go through life that way. In reality, we have doubts just like everyone else.
Bringing your Lead’s doubts to the surface in your plot pulls the reader deeper into the story, and this is an excellent way to coax the reader to lose himself in the story world you’re about to create.”
“Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.”
“Characters who don't change and grow with each life experience turn into caricatures. They're cardboard cutouts of people who eventually become boring because they're predictable. But to grow you need to take risks ... Take the risk.”
Source: Code of Conduct
“Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.”
“Characters who love loneliness walk on lonely roads!”
“Characters who simply have goals opposed by others do not create the effects of a story.”
“Characters with no integrity are just as interesting as characters with lots of integrity.”
“Characters work really well when they're reflective of the times that they're operating in. To keep these characters static - like Superman was invented in the '30s, Wonder Woman in the '40s - if they were still operating under those kinds of constraints, they'd die. These pop cultures, just like Greek myths, they have to reflect the time their stories are being told. That's what makes them relevant.”
“CHARADE PARADE
A 'Special Day' once a year creates an excuse for neglect on the other 365 days for mothers, fathers & veterans”
Source: Profound Vers-A-Tales
“Charakter, das ist eine Zeitfrage. Er hält soundso lange, genau wie ein Handschuh. Es gibt gute, die halten lange. Aber sie halten nicht ewig.”
Source: Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
“Charakter ist Schicksal. Historie ist Gott.”
Source: In The Heart Of The Country
“Charaktere sind vielleicht schon bezeichnet und beschrieben worden, seit es Lebewesen gibt, die sprechen können. Dichter haben das sehr differenziert getan; man denke an Proust, Tolstoi oder Dostojewski. Diese Autoren haben die innere Dynamik eines Charakters und seine Veränderungen unter aktuellen Einflüssen der Umwelt dargestellt. Wer ihre Bücher liest, kann verstehen, warum die beschriebenen Personen so und nicht anders gehandelt haben. Dichter haben auch beschrieben, wie Menschen zu dem werden, was sie sind. Dichter wissen vieles, was Psychoanalytiker sich mühsam erarbeiten.”
“Charcoal or gas. Both give excellent results, so choose the one that best suits your style of cooking.”
“Charge for something and make more than you spend.”
“CHARGE FORTH, STRIKE DOWN OUR FOES AND BRING WASTE TO THE CITY STREETS! LET OUR VICTORY BE SO MONUMENTAL THAT IT IS FELT THROUGHOUT ALL OF AFFER!”
Source: The Quest for Freedom
“Charge forward with hope and get the best medical advice you can. Talk to your friends, neighbors, family, and together you attack it. We can't always control what happens to us, but we can always control how we react to it.”
“Charge hell with a bucket of water.”
Source: Ruffles & flourishes
“Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.”
“Charge like a Rhino, defend like a PitBull”
“Charge’ means coming together of all the circumstances and ‘discharge’ means the circumstances get over.”
“Charge up your mind with facts and reason,
Charge up your heart with love and vision.
Backbone alive repels cowardly inaction,
Even if peddled by thousand year tradition.”
Source: Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch
“Charge what you're worth. Don't sell gold for the price of copper”
“Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.”
“Charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500.”
“Charging a premium amount allows me to offer a premium service.”
“Charging commercial institutions with failure to educate public taste is an indulgence from which intellectuals will only be deterred when they grasp that a non-existant contract can be neither breached nor enforced. If commerce is to be indicted for anything, it can only be for commercialism, and whether that is a crime or not is a political question.”
Source: Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Audience
“Charging [creation of new karma] is under ‘your’ control and discharge [disposal of karma] is in nature’s control. Therefore, if you want to charge, charge positively. Whatever you have charged, nature will not refrain from discharging.”
“Charging everyone the same thing and treating everyone the same way, as retailers do today, is 'Six Sigma' thinking which is great for producing widgets on a production line, but it makes no sense in a world where customers are inherently different.”
“Charging for news online won't work if what is provided is the same as is available elsewhere.”
“Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change”
Source: Managing for the Future
“Charisma gets the attention of man and character gets the attention of God.”
“Charisma is a fancy name given to the knack of giving people your full attention.”
“Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.”
“Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.”
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
“Charisma is a word that erodes stale on the page. When compared with the tangible, flesh experience it tries to label, it falls short. The only way to understand it, is to meet it.”
Source: Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
“Charisma is not just saying hello. It's dropping what you're doing to say hello.”
“Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around.”
“Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.”