#character

No matter how much restitution she paid with every word and deed, her blood-stained hands could never really be clean, even if no one else knew they were dirty. ↗

— Stacy Hawkins Adams

#inspirational #novel #home

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#authorities #back #books #brilliance #brooks

Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are. ↗

— Jill Clayburgh

#clothes #help #inform #part #who

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story. ↗

— Eric Brown

#characters #duty #emotions #i #i think

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

#looking #our #think

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional ... My characters have a profession, have characteristics; you know their age, their family situation, and everything. But I try to make each one of those characters heavy, like a statue, and to be the brother of everybody in the world. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#inspirational #writing #age

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person. ↗

— Tim Buckley

#character #coach #comes #difficult #going

I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#characters #feel #feeling #fit #i

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. ↗

— George W. Bush

#country #duty #from time to time #honor #leadership

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#book #chapters #character #figuring #initial