Character Driven Quotes

“I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“According to the evidence provided by the Wasp Trap files, the Fleet Street newspaper proprietor was introduced to, among other prominent Nazis, Hitler’s architect, Albert Speer, in 1934. Speer was also Hitler’s closest military adviser just before the war. Evidence from a letter allegedly from Speer to the Fleet Street newspaper proprietor, thanking him for information about the Paris defences and the Free French army. A photograph of a letter allegedly from the Fleet Street proprietor, also included in these discovered files, advises Force Yellow – the German invading army – to avoid the Maginot line entirely and invade through neutral Belgium and the other Low Countries. There is no evidence that totally confirms these letters are genuine, or, indeed, from Speer or the Fleet Street newspaper proprietor.
“In June 1940, when the Nazis occupied Paris, the Fleet Street newspaper proprietor was back in London and became liaison executive between the secret services in Britain and agents in France. It is possibly no coincidence that the invading Nazi forces occupied a house in Avenue Foch, Paris, owned by the newspaper proprietor’s family. The house was then used for the entertainment of senior Nazi officers. The Wasp Trap files document that the Fleet Street newspaper proprietor had allegedly been credited with over thirty British agents and Free French operatives being captured, tortured and killed.”
― Hugo Woolley, The Wasp Trap

“He’s slipped up a little every now and then but after today, I imagine he’ll be spending a little extra time in church next Sunday.”
― R. Gerry Fabian, Just Out Of Reach

“I hate crickets,” he said. “Yes,” she replied. “Crickets are like cilantro. You either love ‘em or hate ‘em." “Did you just say cilantro?” The look on his face suggested she had just lost her mind. ”
― Alyssa Hall, And Then I Heard the Quiet

“Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.”
― Dr. Henry Cloud

“William Redgrave lives two lives at once—a fragile balance between who he is and who he wishes to be.”
― Val Chromos, The Time In Between

“An American Family Sampler is a book any reader will find insightful, thoroughly researched, and fun to read. Robert Frump, author, award winning journalist, business leader”
― Donald Mazzella

“Not everything needs to be spoken. Some truths rest quietly in a gesture, a breath, a presence that stays long after it leaves.”
― S.K. Man, Fragments of Light: In the Stillness, Something Endures

“Some memories don’t fade—they just return in different bodies.”
― S.K. Man, Even the Sky Remembers: The Weight We Choose to Keep

“The ones we remember are not always the ones we should."

— Names on a Crooked Wall”
― Saddam Abuallail, Names on a Crooked Wall: A Novel of Memory, Shadows, and the Names We Leave Behind

“Even the darkest gods can’t extinguish the light of a soul that still burns.
— The Soul Thief’s Bargain”
― M.L. Richardson, The Soul Thief’s Bargain

“Not every love story promises forever — sometimes it promises a single moment that changes everything.”
― Dilussions, His Secret Heart: A Slow-Burn Contemporary Romance Novel of Secrets, Healing, and Fragile Truths

“⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A fire that burns from within
"Sometimes the chains that hold you are inside your own mind. Sometimes freedom means choosing when to burn."
This book hit different. Roar'Z isn't your typical fantasy hero. He's a gladiator with literal fire in his blood, but the real story is about the prison he's built in his own head. The external chains? Those are almost secondary.
What got me was how the book handles power and control. Roar'Z spends most of his time suppressing what makes him dangerous, hiding what makes him different. And you watch him struggle with when to let that fire out and when to keep it locked down tight.
The worldbuilding is solid. Orcs, dragons, druids who can't decide if they should actually help anyone. The action scenes are brutal and well-written. But it's the character work that kept me reading.
If you like your fantasy dark, your protagonists complicated, and your themes about breaking free from what holds you back (even when that thing is yourself), pick this up.
Worth the read.”
― D BOHICA, Breach of Balance

“I laughed with them, cried with them—these characters became friends.”
― Rendi Ansyah, Beyond the Bouquet: A Symphony of Love in Fifty Movements