Best Characters Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Conversations happen quite often in life. As a writer and a poet, I like listening rather than talking. Somehow the conversations come out quite interesting. As a writer, I don't judge anyone. Because we are all humans and nobody can be totally perfect. In fact, perfect people do not make interesting characters in stories. And invariably I like to listen to the life stories and instances of the people whom I meet in life. Most people trust me and tell me their life stories. And the people I meet shape the characters and the stories that I write.”

People Inspirational Stories Trust Listening Characters Writers Life Conversations Writing Inspiration Imperfections

Author:Avijeet Das

“The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“They sat there, the air like ice, Everleigh's Ayane wig When I'm older, I'm gonna dye it purple for real!) and Maura's Super Mario mask (I can't breathe in this thing!) cast aside, eating ever one of their collective peanut butter cups. It felt indulgent. Fun. They licked the chocolate from their fingertips. They threw the paper cups across the floor. They feasted. And then there was just one package left, a full-sized score, two final cups inside. They lifted them, and then, as if they were older, an age Everleigh would never live to see, they clinked them together like glasses of champagne, dinging the chocolate, a toast to themselves. "Let's do this every year," Everleigh declared. "I'm in," Maura agreed, mouth full. "I mean it! Promise. As long as one of us wants to go." "Of course we will. Always." It was the happiest they'd ever been.”

Memory Sisters Characters Super Mario Video Game What Could Have Been Dead Or Alive Reeses Peanut Butter Cups

Book:Aftertaste

Source: Aftertaste

“The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth.”

Health Sickness Sisters Siblings Characters Little Women Allusion Reference

Book:Hello Beautiful

Source: Hello Beautiful

“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“All worries are less with wine.”

Book:Wealth of Words

Source: Wealth of Words

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Simplicity saves strength.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“When it comes to literature, wishes are important to keep in mind. One of the first things I learned when I started writing stories was that characters must desire something. And if we unpack the word desire, from the Latin desiderare, meaning, literally, away from the stars, we learn that every desire implies a distance, an absence, a lack of satisfaction. That longing, that empty space, is where the volcanic potential of the optative genoito resides.”

Desire Characters

Book:Translating Myself and Others

Source: Translating Myself and Others

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”

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Book:Wealth of Words

Source: Wealth of Words

“Great losses are great lessons.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that’s been so for ages. (....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us… so don’t get discouraged if I didn’t mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day…”

Source: One Hundred One World Accounts in One Hundred One Word Count

“...because there's a secret order. The books, you can't place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoj. And I thought, if close to Anna Karenina we have Don Quixote, sure the latter will do his best to save her.”

Culture Imagination Authors Book Lovers Characters Classic Literature Librarians Ispirational

Author:Ettore Scola

“What's real and what's not? People we meet in books--Holden Caulfield, Captain Ahab, Huckleberry Finn, Harry Potter, Bilbo and Gandalf and Frodo-- can become more memorable, and more important to us than people with birth certificates and drivers' licenses. Characters spawned in an author's imagination find a home inside us. They make our lives richer. They become our best friends. They never disappoint. And they never die.”

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Author:Michael R. French

“It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.”

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Book:Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

Source: Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“French Louis Seymour of the West Canada Creek, who knew how to survive all alone in a treacherous wilderness, and Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt of New York City and Raquette Lake, who was richer than God and traveled in his very own Pullman car, and Emmie Hubbard of the Uncas Road, who painted the most beautiful pictures when she was drunk and burned them in her woodstove when she was sober, were all ten times more interesting to me than Milton's devil or Austen's boy-crazy girls or that twitchy fool of Poe's who couldn't think of any place better to bury a body than under his own damn floor.”

Life Humor Books Fame Characters

Book:A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessional exists. We know each other approximately, by external signs, and these serve well enough as a basis for society and even for intimacy. But people in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed. And this is why they often seem more definite than characters in history, or even our own friends; we have been told all about them that can be told; even if they are imperfect or unreal they do not contain any secrets, whereas our friends do and must, mutual secrecy being one of the conditions of life upon this globe.”

People Understanding Knowing Secrets Secrecy Novels Characters Understanding Others Knowing Others Characters In Novels

Author:E.M. Forster

“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Most of the world’s problems are caused by people who made education compulsory, but personal development optional. Because of them, we have many intelligent people who lack good characters.”

Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Riley felt like he had joined the ranks of romantic heroes who would do anything to win their fair princess. He was Mr. Darcy, he was Rhett Butler, he was Shrek. Maybe not Shrek.”

Love Books Romantic Movies Characters

Book:The Authenticity Project

Source: The Authenticity Project

“He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“The driver, a black silhouette upon his box, whipped up his bony horses. Icy silence in the coach. Marius, motionless, his body braced in the corner of the carriage, his head dropping down upon his breast, his arms hanging, his legs rigid, appeared to await nothing now but a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of shadow, and Javert of stone.”

Despair Intriguing Characters

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Habits can be changed. Character cannot. You can train yourself to wake up early, eat healthy, or quit smoking — but an evil heart stays evil. A cheating, lying person will always be just that. The biggest mistake people make is thinking they can change someone’s character. They confuse habits with character. One is behavior. The other is the soul”

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Author:Alex Haditaghi

“Sometimes I make up ideas in my head at night, they can be good, they can be bad. And to be fair, they're mostly killing off characters. So naturally, I end up sobbing my eyes out in the morning whenever someone dies in my dreams. And then I end up writing about it so everyone else can feel pain too :)”

Evil Sad Happy Characters Ocs

Author:Bee_

“I write about scoundrels; my specialty is generally scoundrels. If somebody's done a bad thing, I just talk about it. I don't prettify it or anything. My characters, a lot of them are disgusting — what they've done in the past. Somebody described them once as "last-ditch attempts at justification." And sometimes that's what my characters or my personae are doing: they're saying, "Yes, I did this and that thing, and perhaps it was evil. It was bad — maybe it wasn't even evil — but this is why I did it. You don't know the circumstances surrounding it." And this is the telling; they're almost retelling what happened from their point of view .... I use "bad words" whenever I feel the need, you know, I just put 'em in there — if it's true to my character. I always like to think that I'm doing things that are true to my charcter. And I hope that, when I'm dealing with violence, for example, that it's not gratuitous, that it's coming out of character that requires that .... I usually start with character, rather than a concept or an idea. If I do want to deal with an idea, I must create a character, in order to work from there, from that angle.”

Writing Poetry Evil Violence Characters Personae

Author:Ai

“There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.”

“And then there were his eyes. I couldn’t see him anymore. When I looked at Mitchell, at his black pupils that I swear are brown, there seems to be an emptiness, as if they are eyeballs with no person behind them. It’s like some part of him is lost in sin, or the thousands of parties he has attended, shrooms, or some evil act no soul could recover from.”

Death Friendship Sadness Sad Quotes Characters The Goodbye Song Changing Missing Person People Change

Book:The Goodbye Song

Source: The Goodbye Song

“It is my considered view that no one can invent fictional characters without first having made a lengthy study of people, just as it is impossible for anyone to speak a language that has not been properly mastered. Since I am not yet of an age to invent, I must make do with telling a tale.”

People Literature Beginning Characters

Book:La dame aux camélias

Source: La dame aux camélias

“An author who does not support his or her characters does not deserve the support of readers. EVER!”

Literature Respect Author Characters

Author:Johanna Oznowicz

“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.”

Source: Wealth of Words