#temperament

No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything. ↗

— Zane Grey

#appreciation #connected #everything #except #him

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person. ↗

— Juliana Hatfield

#commercial #commercial success #did #i #little

I like cats. I used to have a lot of cats, but I don't anymore, now I just have a dog. It does take a certain temperament to have a cat, as they do have certain personalities. ↗

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

#cat #cats #certain #does #dog

British girls are as temperamental as Americans. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#temperamental

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#artist #every #expression #fundamentally #personality

If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way. ↗

— Sol Hurok

#great #i #nature #temperamental #them

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist. ↗

— John Barth

#certain #except #god #novelist #realist

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#artistic #disease #temperament

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies -which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world -what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#lies #temperament #death

My co-workers expect me to be late and temperamental. ↗

— Eva Gabor

#expect #late #me #temperamental