Appearance Minor Characters

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

    “What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “To minor authors is left the ornamentation of the commonplace: these do not bother about any reinventing of the world; they merely try to squeeze the best they can out of a given order of things, out of traditional patterns of fiction.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Of the other characters in the book there is, likewise, little to say. The most endearing one is obviously the old Captain Maksim Maksimich, stolid, gruff, naively poetical, matter-of- fact, simple-hearted, and completely neurotic.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)