Julian Barnes Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does: otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story. But in life? I sometimes wonder. Our attitudes and opinions change, we develop new habits and eccentricities; but that's something different, more like decoration. Perhaps character resembles intelligence, except that character peaks a little later: between twenty and thirty, say. And after that, we're just stuck with what we've got. We're on our own. If so, that would explain a lot of lives, wouldn't it? And also - if this isn't too grand a word - our tragedy.

  Julian Barnes

  Attitude, Character, Tragedy

• Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

  Julian Barnes

  Character, People, Known

  Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts (2009). “Conversations with Julian Barnes”, p.78, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can.

  Julian Barnes

  Moving, Character, Way

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