Quotes About Revealing Character

#1. [Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.

Philippe Halsman

#2. Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc.

Richard Bausch

#3. This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.

Freya Stark

#4. I want to live right and that means learning how to be kind to myself.

Jai Uttal

#5. Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them.

Peter Jackson

#6. The search for something can prove as interesting as finding it.

Paulo Coelho

#7. You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

Mignon McLaughlin

#8. But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character-by demonstrating that its sure result is misery and death.

Ellen G. White

#9. I like the fact that we're stripping the icons away. They're the WikiLeaks for the age that we're revealing, with the transparency of the characters. We're unearthing the truth beyond or underneath the myth. I love that aspect.

Joseph Fiennes

#10. For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

Adam Johnson

#11. I feel like if you really know the ending right from the beginning, you can add so many subtleties and little things later that will pay off and be more consistent and more rewarding for the reader.

Jeff Lemire

#12. I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

Jonathan Shapiro

#13. But damn it, if he could be nonchalant about a woman rubbing herself against his giant erection like it was a stripper's pole, then so could she.

Amy Andrews

#14. A difficult journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.

Michael Treanor

#15. He lifted his head and stared at me with a dark look in his eyes. You taste sweeter than you pretend to be.

B.B. Reid

#16. I feel like having details from their day and having a plot and action and things to do is much more revealing than having a character sitting and thinking to themselves. When I'm writing, I want people to actually have a goal, something that's dragging them forward.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#17. The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters.

Fulton J. Sheen

#18. It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

Kurt Vonnegut

#19. Life is not all about accomplishment; it's all about doing, participating, progressing, growing, learning.

Mike Hernacki

#20. Clearing away the excess whittles life down to its bare essence, revealing purity of heart, integrity of character and inspiration of purpose,

Kathleen Ann Harper