Appearance Minor Characters

Famous quotes containing the words appearance, minor and/or characters:

    “You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “For a country to have a great writer ... is like having another government. That’s why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
    —Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)

    “What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That’s what their substance is.”
    —Jonathan Miller (b. 1936)