Character Insight Quotes

#1. History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials."

Charles Francis Adams Jr.

#2. Sometimes insight into character and dialogue means being silent.

Jeff VanderMeer

#3. Though they are quick to put others down, unhealthy narcissists view themselves in absolutely positive terms. They

Daniel Goleman

#4. A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

A. Powell Davies

#5. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#6. Treat your husband like a king... you are the pray-er; Jesus is the answered.

Betty Malz

#7. I collect names for characters. Names are valuable; they can be your first source of insight into a character.

Spike Lee

#8. A lot of times, I'll resist the temptation to visually define a movie until, one, I really understand just what the movie's about, and two, until I start talking to my cinematographer.

Tom McCarthy

#9. She's one you *really* care about, isn't she?"
Eliot shook his head. "How can you read other people so well, and completely misread me?"
Frowning, Sophie asked, "What do you mean?"
Looking right into her eyes, Eliot said, "I care about *all* of them.

Keith R.A. DeCandido

#10. To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you ... a truth ... that used to elude you.

Norman Mailer

#11. Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature ... it is more than impersonation.

Leon Surmelian

#12. 'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

William Wordsworth

#13. A vast skylight is cut into the ceiling, so she can fall asleep studying the stars. She doesn't know their real names, preferring mysteries to facts,

Menna Van Praag

#14. If they were there for you when you had nothing, they are the ones worth having now. If they only notice you because of what you have gained, are they worth having at all?

Donna Lynn Hope

#15. Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary tale. Emma is more than a character; she gives us an insight into human nature. With Emma, we are diving into the complexities of Flaubert's psyche.

Sophie Barthes

#16. Don't allow yourself to be fooled by how "nice" a person appears to be, measure a person's virtuousness by the way in which they treat others with their words and actions .

Miya Yamanouchi

#17. I am an intellectual thug who has been slowly accumulating a private arsenal with every intention of using it. In a mindless age every insight takes on the character of a lethal weapon. Every man of good will is the enemy of society.

Marshall McLuhan

#18. With more insight into the English character, I poured out a stiff whisky and soda and placed it in front of the gloomy inspector.

Agatha Christie

#19. Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character, - but she always pays.

William George Jordan

#20. Insight into character comes from listening intently to the spoken word. The physical person, their charisma, charm and dramatic flair is more often used to persuade audiences, as they use these stealth tools of disguise and deception.

Maximillian Degenerez

#21. But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.

John Lloyd Young

#22. Language is in the way. Music's in the way. Songs are in the way. Stuff's in the way. That's just our state here. And to acknowledge that we're broken and to even ... create tradition that helps us embrace that, and to understand that, I think is a very healthy, good thing.

Crowder

#23. Bob Harras' personal and creative integrity is respected and renowned throughout the comic book industry. As an editor, he provides invaluable insight into storytelling and character.

Jim Lee

#24. To know a person's character you must at least have talked with him, and unless you are gifted with remarkable intuitive insight you are not likely to know much about him unless you have seen him living and acting over a considerable period of time.

Aldous Huxley

#25. Most portraits are lies. People are rarely what they appear to be, especially in front of a camera. You might know me your entire lifetime and never reveal yourself to me. To interpret wrinkles as character is insult not insight.

Duane Michals

#26. You are always working towards the moments in which characters experience reckonings or insight or change. I like to track them past those moments.

Dana Spiotta

#27. He was a silent type, very nervy of people: shy, introverted, nobody would believe he could scream so loud ... well he did drink a bottle of bleach!

Stephen Richards

#28. The purpose of a short story is ... that the reader shall come away with the satisfactory feeling that a particular insight into human character has been gained, or that his (or her) knowledge of life has been deepened, or that pity, love or sympathy for a human being is awakened.

Lin Yutang

#29. To fall down is to face the weakness of my humanity, test the mettle of my character, and push the limits of my strength. Therefore, falling down will tell me who I am far more clearly than most things I might learn when I'm standing up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#30. I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters.

Dan Chaon

#31. Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.

Louise J. Kaplan