Characters

Famous quotes containing the word characters:

“No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“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)