105 Quotes About Character-development



  • Author Michel de Montaigne
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    To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.

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  • Author Lajos Egri
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    There is only one realm in which characters defy natural laws and remain the same—the realm of bad writing. And its the fixed nature of the characters which makes the writing bad. If a character in a short story, novel, or play occupies the same position at the end as the one he did at the beginning, that story, novel, or play is bad.

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  • Author Stephen King
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    Everybody has some part of their character that is admirable. I'm sure that at one time Theodore Bundy helped an old lady across the street—of course he probably raped and murdered her on the other side—but, that's what I'm talking about, the yin and the yang of it.

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  • Author Jim Lowe
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    Even sleep couldn’t defeat pain. Pain covers sleep. Pain always wins.Now the romance was well and truly dead between Joseph and Klaudia, it was time to head down the rocky road of mutual emotional destruction.

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